Pop across Highway 37 (enjoying the bird-filled Napa-Sonoma Marshes along the way) and in 30 minutes you’re in another avian ...

Pop across Highway 37 (enjoying the bird-filled Napa-Sonoma Marshes along the way) and in 30 minutes you’re in another avian ...

Unlike the forests or the prairie, fires in the chaparral are infrequent and intensely hot. While the Native Americans in California deliberately set fires to shrubland, they were not trying to ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Mendocino Unit reported this week that it will begin conducting a vegetation management prescribed burn on the Shamrock Ranch near ...

It took me two days to finally see a train on the Tehachapi Loop, the 3,799-foot-long rail spiral in Southern California that first allowed passenger trains to journey from the Bay Area to Los Angeles ...

“There aren’t any.” Unlike mountains in parts of Northern California that are filled with pine and cedar trees, the hills around L.A. are covered in chaparral, an ecosystem made up of small ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep ... that promoted plant growth in the surrounding chaparral and coastal sage scrub, said Glen MacDonald ...

Much-needed rain helped firefighters make gains on several blazes in Southern California on Monday as ... Santa Monica and Woodland Hills are among the areas that have seen landslides or flooding ...

a fire ecologist with the California Chaparral Institute in Escondido on Jan. 23. Ecosystems are used to this seesaw effect, he said and fire is part of the Mediterranean climate of Southern ...