Chaparral shrublands are also huge reservoirs for carbon sequestration, according to Robert Fitch, a fire ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. And the chaparral’s woody shrubs ...
On Oct. 28, Cal Fire attempted to burn native Chaparral habitat on SFPUC land above State Route 92 near Ralston Avenue in Belmont. The burn was curtailed when Cal Fire could not get the shrub to ...