chaparrals

Sometimes we were compelled to cross broad plains, acres in extent, called chaparrals, covered with low shrubs, which, leafless and barkless, stand like vegetable skeletons along the dreary waste.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

What he's referring to is the chaparrals starting at the grasses.

CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2008 2008

But when a ground fire gets up and gets caught up into one of these eucalyptus or one of these chaparrals, we get the ground fires jumping from limb to limb, from tree to tree.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007 2007

Like other chaparrals, coastal sage scrub is a fire-adapted community with many species that resprout quickly from root crowns or rapidly germinate after burns.

California coastal sage and chaparral 2007

This animal, if need be, will live on road-side croppings nearly as well as a mule, -- travel all day long on an easy "lope," never offering to stop till fatigue makes him fall, -- and, if you let him, will take you through _chaparrals_, and up and down precipices at whose bare suggestion an Eastern horse would break his legs.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

The chaparrals, and their difficulty of penetration by the mules.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

The chaparrals, and their difficulty of penetration by the mules.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

The hot, dry conditions create a favorable environment for fires, which occur frequently in chaparrals.

About.com Biology 2010

With bassoon grounding and triangle, smoke signals appear on the horizon, and horsemen glide along high chaparrals.

Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

Within these chaparrals on the edge of the barranca springtime brings a tribe of yellow bee orchids to flower.

Notes from Spain: Travel, Living in Spain, Podcasts, Forum and Photos Simon Beckmann 2009