“Chaparral is extraordinarily species-rich ... tribes inhabited the land and engaged in controlled burning — the Santa Monica Mountains and its landscapes of chaparral, oak woodlands and ...

In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire struck the Santa Monica Mountains, spreading through parts of both Los Angeles and Ventura counties to become one of the most destructive wildfires the Southern ...

Much of this land is part of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area ... At more than 150,000 acres, it encompasses rugged 3,000-foot mountains, chaparral hills, ancient stands of live oak, ...

"If you're going through chaparral, you're probably army crawling because it's very dense," says Joseph Algiers, restoration ecologist at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a park of ...