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The chaparral began 40 feet from my back door.

“With more frequent wildfires, there are more acres of burned chaparral dominated by poodle-dog bush,” Lewis said.

Additionally, require insurers to take forest management into account in their underwriting, and boost federal, state and local funding for forest and chaparral management strategies, such as controlled burns and fuel load reduction.

I ask myself what the coast, with its chaparral, eucalyptus, wide-mawed canyons and thick seasonal fogs, will look like when I return.

Carbon capture capacity declines dramatically as forests are replaced by chaparral, undermining efforts to mitigate climate change.