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Few of California's grasslands and open places have been untouched by humans...

Hard chaparral replaces soft chaparral in hotter, drier inland areas, usually on steep, rocky slopes...

Ladybugs inhabit many places in the world. Not bugs at all, they are VW-shaped beetles with hard, protective outer wings...

Coyotes are extremely adaptable and can survive on whatever food is available...

Where oak canopies overlap, conditions favor a variety of other usually evergreen trees...

The animal population I am most frequently asked about is that of the mountain lion, also called the puma or cougar...

Probably no more characteristic treelands occur in our part of California than oak woodlands...

Despite the consequences of its toxicity, poison oak is an interesting -- even attractive -- deciduous shrub...