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“With more frequent wildfires, there are more acres of burned chaparral dominated by poodle-dog bush,” Lewis said.

Additionally, require insurers to take forest management into account in their underwriting, and boost federal, state and local funding for forest and chaparral management strategies, such as controlled burns and fuel load reduction.

I ask myself what the coast, with its chaparral, eucalyptus, wide-mawed canyons and thick seasonal fogs, will look like when I return.

Carbon capture capacity declines dramatically as forests are replaced by chaparral, undermining efforts to mitigate climate change.

Chief Patrick Butler, now chief of the Redondo Beach Fire Department, said that chaparral can burn underground without visible flames for weeks after the original fire has been knocked down.