After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing ...

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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 ...

senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, a non-profit research group. “One-size-fits-all has a very high potential of leading to unintended consequences.” It’s not easy to walk ...

But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region ... senior research scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, a non-profit research group.

The sun had not begun to peek over the horizon in south Las Cruces when a pair of siblings headed to work at a flower farm to ...