chaparral
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Because chaparral does not pose a notably greater fire risk as it ages, letting the park burn would not accomplish any significant ecological or wildfire risk reduction goals, she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2025
Most chaparral plants are adapted to this fire cycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2025
Left alone, chaparral typically burns every 30 to 130 years, historically due to lightning strikes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
Villanueva downplayed the effectiveness of the thermal imaging cameras, noting that some chaparral in the city extends 15 to 25 feet underground, while the depth of the department’s cameras is only a foot.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn’t going to hurt him.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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Western Europe - Introductory
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