Most California Thrashers (Toxostoma redivivum) spend their entire lives in chaparral, a fire-adapted habitat. Their populations peak about 20 years after a burn.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/california_thrasher
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A long-tailed, lanky songbird with a deeply curved bill, the California Thrasher is a key species of California chaparral. This relative of mockingbirds is an exuberant songster, and both males and females sing from the tops of shrubs, sometimes duetting. They forage on the ground, using their strong legs and long tail for leverage as they sweep the bill through leaf litter to uncover insects and other prey. This species is on the Yellow Watch List for its restricted range.
Hiking at White Point Nature Preserve last weekend. It's a former World War II coastal defense bunker and cold war missile site, decommissioned in the 1970s, and eventually turned into a nature preserve. In the third photo you can just see the remnants of the two bunkers near the top of the hill. The last one is the visitor center in the middle of a garden showcasing native California plants.
Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) is one of the most widespread shrubs in California’s chaparral. Deep taproots tap hidden water, thick, waxy leaves hold onto it, and a burl-like base helps it resprout after fire.
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If you're nervously watching the #LA fires, and wondering what kind of fireproofing you could do personally, there's actually a decent amount you can do via landscaping. See native #chaparral plants are cool in that they either don't catch fire easily or they go up in flames quickly. If you plant the first set, and follow other fire rules, you might save your house. Greg #Rubin has the research, mostly SoCal based. Last I heard, he hasn't lost a house yet.
https://ebcnps.org/events/using-native-plants-for-fire-resistant-landscapes-2020-10/
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Disguised as being used for “forest health” and “wildfire protection,” $1.5 billion is tucked into the $10 billion bond [...] in an attempt to bribe the public into supporting it. Another $1.2 billion is designated for “restoration” of natural areas, which in Cal Fire’s Orwellian view of Nature means even more habitat clearance, logging, and herbicide use.
https://chaparralwisdom.org/2024/10/07/please-vote-no-on-prop-4-protect-the-chaparral/
Proposition 4 will fund Cal Fire’s master plan to clear hundreds of thousands of acres of chaparral across the State of California – $1.5 billion worth to grind up, burn, and spray herbicides on California’s most characteristic native ecosystem, or as the State now...
When one travels down the road from Alamogordo to El Paso located near the New Mexico Texas border is Chaparral, New Mexico. As one drives by they see signs advertising land for sale by the Colquitt Company, founded by P.K. Colquitt and his son in the 1960s, around the time when many colonias started to develop along the borderlands of New Mexico and Texas, according to reporting by AlamogordoTownNews.org.
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