M ore than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest could re-open to industrial logging and road-building if the Trump ...

A year after a wildfire tore through the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve Extension in Del Mar, the landscape is healing ...

Cal Fire has awarded grants to support 15 scientific research studies to better understand certain vegetation types and uses ...

Previous fuel reduction methods had been limited to prescribed burning, trimming, and using equipment to cut and uproot plants on an average of around 33,000 acres per year.

Most chaparral plants have small leaves that conserve water, one way they survive hot summers with virtually no rain. "We're standing in a biodiversity hotspot right now, and chaparral is unique ...

Fire experts say trimming the vegetation directly around a home goes a long way in reducing fire danger, but clearing vast areas of Los Angeles' chaparral brush could actually make the problem worse.

Chaparral plants are also adapted to wildfires, which are a regular part of the Southern California landscape. While the dry shrubs burn at high intensity, they can bounce back after burning to the ...