Sentences with phrase «california chaparral»

Livestock grazing and fire suppression effects, for example, have arguably had minimal effects on changes in vegetation and fuel dynamics in many shrublands (e.g., southern California chaparral) or in higher elevation spruce - fir forests.

[Insert, 6:00 p.m. Richard Halsey of the California Chaparral Institute reminded me it's vital to stress that vegetation clearance, on its own, is no guarantee of safety, with location and construction methods and materials prime factors.

Guadalupe shares the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion with the Channel Islands of California in the United States, but the island was at one time practically denuded of all plants higher than a few centimeters by up to 100,000 [note 1] feral goats.

To date, no other studies have compared the effects of different fire management types on California chaparral wildlife.

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«The fire risk potential is quite high, particularly in Central and Southern California, where either the hope for El Nino rains didn't really come but there were enough rains to cause more brush to grow and chaparral to grow,» said Mark Bove, a senior research meteorologist for Munich Reinsurance America.

On a chaparral - covered mountainside above Hopland, a pit - stop town of 750 on the northern outskirts of California's wine country, Robert Lane drags a white flannel cloth over a patch of fallen oak leaves.

At the time, he was a professor at the University of California at San Diego, living in the chaparral canyons outside the city.

When the boy became a biologist, he recognized that the chaparral was a unique ecosystem, with its own suite of interdependent plants and animals, the coastal sage scrub home to fox and bobcats, wrentits and spotted towhees, cactus mouse and California quail.

As Wilcove was finishing his work, on the opposite side of the country Michael Soulé began to study how coyote decline affected the ecology of Southern California's chaparral canyons.

But scientists from the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley, are showing that in chaparral, California's iconic shrubland ecosystem, management can devastate wild bird populations and that fire - risk reduction is only temporary.

Chaparral is a fire - prone ecosystem in North America that is widespread throughout California.

Wildomar is home to many plants like chaparral, coastal sage scrub, the California Poppy and California sycamore.

Crystal Cove State Park is a state park of California, United States, encompassing 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of Pacific coastline, inland chaparral canyons, and the Crystal Cove Historic District of beach houses.

The narrative of this 7.5» x 4» piece highlights the fascinating fire regime of chaparral, drawing correlations between the phoenix - like rebirth of this plant community post-fire, the return of the Condor to California, and the possible reintroduction of grizzlies to the state.

Its natural habitats are chaparral and woodlands, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, and temperate grassland on the Channel Islands of California.

Jennifer Hammock added an association between «California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands Habitat» and «Gymnogyps californianus».

Jennifer Hammock added an association between «California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands Habitat» and «Thamnophis hammondii Kennicott 1860».

Jennifer Hammock added an association between «California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands Habitat» and «Larus heermanni».

Southern California's wildfires feed mostly on dry chaparral lands, having few forests of the kind that CEI advocates burning in their proposals to revamp federal forest management policy.

So, out on the hills of Southern California, the mesquite and chaparral are gaining biomass faster.