Some plants use the heat to their advantage. Scrub oak and chamise, an evergreen shrub, resprout from roots or branches after fire has incinerated their outer limbs. If fire destroys their ...

District Attorney David Eyster’s year long quest to criminally prosecute Mendocino County’s elected Auditor Chamise Cubbison, whom he quarreled with over his own office’s spending, is off track again.

Traci Carrillo, who was hired by Mendocino County District Attorney David Eyster to press the case that has dragged on for ...

HABITAT: The Quino checkerspot may occupy a variety of habitat types — including grasslands, coastal sage scrub, chamise chaparral, red shank chaparral, juniper woodland, and semi-desert scrub — that ...

Pupation occurs at the base of the redberry over a period of 10 to 14 days. FEEDING: Larvae eat redberry leaves; adults primarily eat the nectar of the buckwheat plant, but have also been observed ...

The slope I’d traipsed up to get there was having a full-on spring freak-out. Everything was growing and nothing was dying: Green grass, red paintbrush, purple lupine, orange poppies and yellow ...

Scrub oaks and chamise plants resprout from their roots. Many plants and trees that have evolved to thrive in fire-prone areas have woody growth (lignotubers) at or below ground level. These ...