Another feature of the chaparral is the scrub oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference
In many cases a plant called chaparral or it's scrub oaks or it's the low grasses that grow with it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference
There were also thick, gray thornbushes called chaparral, interlaced amid the equally thorny mesquite. From Wordnik.com. [Streets of Laredo] Reference
Thickets of bushes and small juniper trees called chaparral replaced the tall grass touted by early settlers. From Wordnik.com. [Payson Roundup stories] Reference
One of the most charming features of the chaparral is the mountain ash, especially when the berries are ripe and red. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference
The Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub biome (also called chaparral) has a very specific spatial distribution. From Wordnik.com. [Terrestrial biome] Reference
Well the area of Greece, particularly Crete, is a typical location where you have what is called a chaparral environment or biome. From Wordnik.com. [Olives and People, Past and Present] Reference
It is made by the chaparral, which is composed of a variety of desert plants that are native to the soil and can live on very little water. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Sketches] Reference
Free and fearless they ranged valley and hillside, or made their dens in the thick brush, or "chaparral," as the Spanish called it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Well up we came upon the "chaparral," the hacienda herdsman, tawny with sunburn even to his leather garments. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
They had halted beside a dense patch of chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
The wild boar roams through the black chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
We're on the northeast tip of San Diego before it becomes chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling the Heat From Witch Creek] Reference
Then he crossed a brook and was among chaparral and manzanita bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
I let Nunatak lead me in the fading light through the parched chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
I dreamt that I flew over desert chaparral into an infinite orange horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
Crimson and yellow-flowered cactus, sage and chaparral, succeeded the pines. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
"At first just a sweep of tawny sand-dunes, surrounded by scrub oak and chaparral.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
My family lives in the middle of the city, miles from the nearest chaparral country. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk] Reference
The same thing will happen if you scrape away all the native chaparral, so don't do it. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfires prompt discussion on fire resistant gardens] Reference
On the sloping walls in the more open sections of this valley grew the stubby-thorned chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
The balls commenced to whistle very thick overhead, cutting the limbs of the chaparral right and left. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Afterward they dusted themselves in the chaparral and twitted the proprietor with soft contented noises. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
He gave an order and ten of his men separated from the rest and began to encircle the patch of chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
To our north is the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, largely undeveloped chaparral that is very flammable. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling the Heat From Witch Creek] Reference
They would keep in the chaparral while on the march, and only discover themselves when the signal was given. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
His organization's goal is chaparral education and preservation, a large part of which is tied to fire management. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfires prompt discussion on fire resistant gardens] Reference
Twenty miles a day through chaparral bushes and cactus is a good day's march for soldiers, with all their equipage. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
Away from the dead center the ravines were body-deep in chaparral, and the hillsides stood gray-green with old cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas] Reference
At intervals we would enter dense thickets of chaparral, and then emerge into glades, that were veritable flower gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Below him yawned an abrupt channel, a score or more of feet in depth, at the bottom of which was a dense chaparral thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
"The assumption is that all chaparral plants are flammable," says Rick Halsey, director of the California chaparral Institute. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfires prompt discussion on fire resistant gardens] Reference
It was, as Hanatamauh had said, a small prairie about a mile and a half in width, closed in on all sides by a thick chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
But fire suppression only allows more natural tinder to accumulate in the chaparral thickets, coastal sage scrub and grasslands. From Wordnik.com. [A Flammable Mix Of Man And Nature] Reference
Many of the newcomers lived in canvas tents or brush-covered shanties scattered about in the high sand-hills or in the thick chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
The strange manzanita bushes, the chaparral, the buck-eye with its plumes, the fragrant mountain lily, like an Easter lily, growing wild. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
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