But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires. In fact, ...

Migrants who were deported from the U.S. to Mexico cross the El Chaparral bridge in Tijuana ... Daniel Batlle is an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute and held senior roles at the Department ...

Controlled burning mitigates the buildup of dense vegetation, which in turn contributes to less fuel present when a fire comes through. However, according to the California Chaparral Institute, high ...

24. “It is normal in Southern California to have extended periods of drought and extended periods of rainfall,” said Rick Halsey, a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in ...

director of the nonprofit California Chaparral Institute and the author of Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California. “There aren’t any.” Unlike mountains in parts of Northern ...

As Richard W. Halsey of the California Chaparral Institute, and Alexandra D. Syphard of the Conservation Biology Institute explained in “High-Severity Fire in Chaparral: Cognitive Dissonance in ...

What many may not know about the fires that occur near Los Angeles is that it’s located in the middle of a chaparral shrubland, a type of ecosystem that grows up around rocky Mediterranean-type ...