Sarmiento and I coasted up and down gentle chaparral hills.
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The Woolsey Fire burned in nearly treeless chaparral shrub land.
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Chaparral did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Strategic Value Partners owned 30% of Chaparral as of December.
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Migrants walk toward the El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana.
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Much of the chaparral that normally covers the hills was ash.
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A spokesperson for Chaparral did not respond to a request for comment.
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The families were returned to Mexico at the El Chaparral pedestrian border crossing.
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They draw grids across rural reservations and fan out through chaparral and sagebrush.
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Chaparral and Merit Energy Co together own more than 90 percent of the pipeline.
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The detention center is operated by Management and Training Corporation in Chaparral, New Mexico.
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The fire, in a mostly chaparral landscape, also burned exceptionally hot, Dr. Godt said.
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However, the climate signal is weaker in chaparral landscapes, like those around Los Angeles.
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The incident took place near the "El Chaparral" pedestrian border crossing into the United States.
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Central American immigrants wait in line at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.
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After that, the battles take place randomly in a desert, fen, chaparral, or laurel forest.
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I would much rather see 15 chaparral beers on tap than 15 IPAs on tap.
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People from Central America at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29.
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CHAPARRAL, New Mexico — The freckled 22-year-old never wanted to come to the United States.
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A number of companies have expressed interest, but they want full ownership of the pipeline, Chaparral said.
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Three other oil firms, Chaparral Energy, Energy XXI and SandRidge Energy, have also recently missed debt payments.
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After his sophomore year, Neal transferred to Scottsdale's Chaparral High School, one of Arizona's top football powers.
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A family waits for US immigration authorities outside El Chaparral port of entry, in Tijuana, Mexico, Dec.
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Chaparral said it no longer needed the pipeline in Oklahoma running from a Koch Fertilizer LLC fertilizer plant.
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Millions of people, far from the burning forests and chaparral, are at risk of breathing and heart difficulties.
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The fire is burning through dense, heavy chaparral and came within yards of some homes in the foothills.
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U.S. officials have restricted applications through the Chaparral gate in Tijuana to between 40 and 100 per day.
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The affected areas aren't overgrown pine forests, but grasslands and other coastal or near-coastal shrublands, known as chaparral.
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The moisture accelerated the proliferation of fast-growing grasses and shrubs that dominate the chaparral landscape around Los Angeles.
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At the incredibly busy crossing in Tijuana, known as El Chaparral, the metering system caused severe backups and disorder.
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Elroy Air's autonomous Chaparral system is hoping to be used for medical supply delivery, disaster response, and remote military missions.
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Chaparral noted that the pipeline could be converted to transport oil, making its location in central Oklahoma a valuable asset.
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Recently arrived families wait in front of El Chaparral port of entry at the Mexico–US border in Tijuana, Mexico.
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A Forest Service survey counted almost 80,000 dead trees there last year, mostly pine, among the chaparral and scrub oak.
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"All these hills normally have a protective cover of chaparral," said Tom Fayram, Santa Barbara's deputy director of public works.
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The company is hoping to use its autonomous Chaparral system for medical supply delivery, disaster response, and remote military missions.
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The first version of the Chaparral will carry 250 pounds of cargo over a 300-mile range, the company says.
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It overlooks the chaparral-covered hillsides of Parma Park; beyond is the nearly 1.8-million-acre Los Padres National Forest.
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In total the fire has scorched 272,000 acres (110,1503 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral and brush since igniting on Dec.
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I'm sure that there is a long list of logging companies waiting to log chaparral shrublands and oak woodlands and grasslands.
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It was nearly inevitable that tensions at the border would boil over, and that they would do so at El Chaparral.
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Yarnell is a haven for artists, hippies and retirees, once hugged by high-desert shrubs and trees — mesquite, scrub oak, chaparral.
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That fire was also driven by heavy Santa Ana winds, but it exploded because of chaparral that fed a devastating fire.
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The blaze has displaced 4,1003 people and charred some 5,800 acres of tall grass and chaparral in Butte County, north of Sacramento.
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The case is In re Chaparral Energy Inc et al, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, No. 16-11144.
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At the plaza at El Chaparral, Mexican federal police in riot formation blocked the marchers from going any farther toward the bridge.
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The fire is being fueled by heavy chaparral and brush, and is spreading rapidly owing to strong, shifting winds and high temperatures.
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"Chaparral is considered a habitat but it ends up being a collection of plants that all sort of live together," Haffner said.
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The low humidity, Mr. Minnich said, had dried out shrubs and bushes — known as chaparral — making them as flammable as a carpet.
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"I think those kids are treated like cattle," said one former worker, who staffed a camp in Chaparral, New Mexico, in 2016.
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He'd made history simply by walking onto the other side of El Chaparral, a pedestrian border crossing connecting San Diego with Tijuana.
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Luciano Alcocer, 56, still vividly recalls his 12-hour trip from Chaparral, N.M., to Dallas packed into an unventilated trailer in 2002.
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Flames raced through the chaparral, setting ablaze 60-foot-tall trees whose burning embers flew into the heart of the avocado orchard.
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The fire that erupted Saturday has burned through tinder-dry chaparral but Paulich says it&aposs been moving away from the populated area.
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Chaparral has a hearing on March 9 to confirm its plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, funded in part by asset sales.
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People reach for food near the El Chaparral port of entry between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 25.
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It wasn't as much an infrastructural challenge to sculpt the trail out of oceanfront canyons and chaparral ridges, but rather a political one.
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By nightfall, the fire had burned 4,000 acres (6 square miles or 16 square kilometers) of chaparral-covered hillsides and destroyed one building.
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Out of the chaparral that buffers the street from the border fence and river, traffickers and smugglers regularly appear, even in broad daylight.
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Chaparral went through a bankruptcy process during the last oil price slump in 2014-16, emerging from Chapter 11 protection in March 2017.
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Chaparral said in its papers on Thursday that a court order extending the period in which it may file a plan through Dec.
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Children play with Mexico's Federal Police at the El Chaparral port of entry on the US–Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 226.
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Flames ignited forests and chaparral virtually nonstop in 2017, and the year ended with record infernos in Southern California that burned well into 2018.
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Recently, SandRidge, Energy XXI and Chaparral Energy elected to not make their interest payments, and their 30-day cure periods expire later this month.
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Obert theorizes that the biggest draw was Cody Ippolito, DaVonte's best friend and a linebacker at Chaparral who had already signed with the Wildcats.
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Steep, mountainous terrain as well as hot, dry conditions have hampered efforts to quell the fire tearing through drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber.
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Their deal expired in December and talks to renew it failed, Chaparral said, adding that talks to acquire CO2 directly from Koch had also failed.
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The ceremony was held at the first tee of the course, tucked among the red rock and chaparral in the hills overlooking the Coachella Valley.
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This is putting pressure on debt-laden energy companies such as Chaparral, which is focused on producing oil and gas in shale plays in Oklahoma.
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Chaparral has hired financial advisers for advice on how to improve its balance sheet, the sources said, adding that no debt restructuring move is imminent.
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The two venture out into the Texas chaparral, strip malls fading into the distance, the landscape seeming to ask: What do you expect to happen?
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Enterprise has said it has three existing NGL pipelines that run from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast - the Seminole Blue, Seminole Red and Chaparral.
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Perilous winds that stoked the fire through drought-parched brush and chaparral abated on Saturday, giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground against the flames.
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The lenders will re-determine the credit facility May 1, and Chaparral expects its borrowing base will be decreased significantly, it said in its annual report.
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Get a load of the Elroy Air Chaparral, a big ol' cargo drone meant to carry 500 pounds and fly 300 miles on one electric charge.
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The List is defined by a series of rituals, which unfold shortly after daybreak every day on the plaza outside the border crossings at El Chaparral.
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A Honduran migrant wears a sanitary mask while waiting in line to plead for asylum at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, March 2.
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But Carmel-by-the-Sea has a country cousin — a vast expanse of grassland, forest and chaparral-covered hills a few miles in from the coast.
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It now will have burned through several different ecosystems: coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oaks, and conifer trees, all of them parched by drought and hot air.
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Perilous winds that stoked the fire through drought-parched brush and chaparral abated on Saturday, giving firefighters a chance to gain some ground against the flames.
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For Chaparral: Joseph Barsalona II, Mark Collins, John Knight and Brendan Schlauch of Richards Layton & Finger, and Richard Levy, Keith Simon and David McElhoe of Latham & Watkins
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Should Chaparral file for bankruptcy, it would be joining about 40 other energy companies that sought court protection from their creditors last year as oil prices plunged.
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As of Friday, it had burned over 5,300 acres (2,144 hectares) of chaparral and short grass, and containment lines were drawn around 30 percent of its perimeter.
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They've built their image-capturing contraptions in redwood forests, chaparral, the desert, the mountains — and after every shoot, they leave the cameras behind to weather over time.
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The blaze, which started last Friday, has roared through nearly 2783,000 acres (13,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
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In Tijuana on Sunday, he was with hundreds of migrants as they marched together to a legal port of entry, the El Chaparral crossing into San Diego.
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And because dairy goats require much more nutrition than meat goats, Putnam's attempt to get her goats to forage the dry chaparral California landscape is completely experimental.
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An asylum-seeker rests outside El Chaparral port of entry while he waits for his turn to present himself to US border authorities to request asylum, in Tijuana.
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"I think that chaparral beer should be a nationally recognized style of beer that every brewery from San Diego to San Francisco should probably be doing," he said.
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Dylan Jeffrey is incarcerated at the Otero County Prison Facility in Chaparral, New Mexico, where he is serving 54 years for criminal sexual penetration he committed in 2002.
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Dave Merrill, chief executive of Elroy, said in the statement that its Chaparral drone is able to operate without airports or charging stations and uses automated cargo loading.
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That blaze has scorched 96,000 acres (39,000 hectares) of chaparral-covered rolling hills and canyons spanning Ventura and Los Angeles counties, an area roughly the size of Denver.
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The group camped out on the grounds of the Chaparral border crossing for days after being turned away by CBP agents because the port of entry was at capacity.
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Garcia's unofficial jurisdiction included not just Deming and El Paso, but also Dallas in Texas; Lordsburg, Mesilla, Chaparral, Anthony, and Albuquerque in New Mexico; and, occasionally, even Denver, Colorado.
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The Getty Fire broke out near the Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles on Monday morning, burning chaparral up and down the mountain slopes around a major highway.
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It is believed to have formed naturally, with white sage growing in soil consisting of light gray granite and white quartz that contrasts with the surrounding chaparral and greasewood.
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Still, caravan organizers escorted some 50 participants along the long, elevated pedestrian walkway at El Chaparral that leads from Tijuana to the entrance to the United States in San Diego.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the asylum seekers, their relatives and supporters laid out blankets on a plaza outside the entrance to El Chaparral and prepared for a long, chilly night.
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About 160 miles farther south, firefighters battled flames roaring through dry brush and chaparral near the Mexican border for a second day, keeping the desert community of Potrero under evacuation.
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The people in the path of the latest fires include working families who've lived for decades in humble subdivisions with gorgeous views of the deadly chaparral in the mountains above.
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En route to Malibu, for example, the Woolsey fire has burned primarily through chaparral, a type of shrubland plant community that regrows quickly and is hard to manage over extensive areas.
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Central American immigrants, part of a group of 87 people deported from the US, wait in line at the El Chaparral border crossing before being transported to a shelter in Tijuana.
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A boy from Honduras lies down in front of Mexican police officers near the El Chaparral port of entry between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 22.
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Still a pall of thick white and brown smoke was visible for miles around the fire, which scorched an estimated 30 acres of steep slopes thick with dry brush and chaparral.
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The Woolsey fire by comparison has scorched 96,000 acres (39,000 hectares) of chaparral-covered rolling hills and canyons spanning Ventura and Los Angeles counties, an area roughly the size of Denver.
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Just 15 percent of the fires, which started a few miles apart early on Monday, have been contained, as the flames have been propelled by bone-dry chaparral and severe heat.
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And some of the fires have burned in areas that have seen blazes in recent years, leaving them without a lot of new fuel — chaparral and shrubs — to burn, said Capt.
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They arrived at the Chaparral border crossing, opposite San Diego, California, and said they would wait there until they could request asylum, in spite of growing U.S. measures to tighten the border.
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"There was never a time that Carlos wasn't making people laugh," Chase Cornils, a fellow cadet in Chaparral High School's Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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While the cause of the fires has not been determined, some 95 percent of wildfires that burn through tangled, thorny chaparral vegetation in California are caused by humans, the Forest Service said.
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The company said this week it will begin testing its unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone for commercial deliveries — called the Chaparral — this year and launch a commercial shipping service in 2020.
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The startup, which was founded in 2016 by experienced professionals with track records of working in UAS (uncrewed aerial systems) has just completed its first flights of the Chaparral prototype test craft.
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In the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, the so-called Pilot Fire, which erupted on Sunday, was 70 percent contained after charring nearly 8,000 acres of dry chaparral, grass and timber.
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The Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in California history, burned almost 450 square miles of the Santa Ynez mountains in late December, a swath of steep, rocky chaparral as big as San Antonio.
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More than 1,200 firefighters have been dispatched to battle the flames, fueled by dry chaparral and grass in coastal canyons about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the affluent city of Santa Barbara.
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"The bonds are going to be completely equitized," Keith Simon, a Latham & Watkins lawyer representing Chaparral said on Thursday at the company's confirmation hearing in Bankruptcy Court in Delaware for its restructuring plan.
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Estacion Federal is just a five-minute walk from Mexico's El Chaparral border crossing, "a little south of south San Diego, a little north of north Tijuana," as the spot is promoted online.
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Nevertheless, a few DEA planes have slipped through the net, and two registered to the front companies Chaparral Air Group and Silver Creek Aviation Services were flagged by our algorithm in the Flightradar24 data.
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In the chaparral above Los Angeles, they discussed organizing a new group under the umbrella of 5050 by 2020, a strategic initiative working toward gender parity across all Hollywood professions that Soloway helps lead.
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Shipping data carried on Thomson Reuters Eikon shows that there are at least eight Very Large Gas Carriers (VLGCs) anchored near Singapore including the Chaparral, Ming Long, Promise, Cratis, British Commerce and Berge Nantong.
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For Chaparral: Joseph Barsalona II, Mark Collins, John Knight and Brendan Schlauch of Richards Layton & Finger, and Richard Levy, Keith Simon and David McElhoe of Latham & Watkins Reporting by Jim Christie; Editing by Richard Chang
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But fire managers said crews were struggling in very rugged terrain as they tried to defend homes in the community of Little Tujunga and stop the spreading blaze that is burning through chaparral and brush.
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It became very silent, then the dry brush rustled, and an island fox trotted out and stared at me for a spell, sniffing the evening air before losing interest and trotting back into the chaparral.
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"When you dump that type of nutrient load on a landscape, it's going to change a lot of dynamics," said Richard Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute, which seeks to preserve native shrubland habitats.
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Carmel itself has remained largely out of harm's way, but the blaze has roared through more than 40,000 acres (16,190 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
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The head of Mexico's immigration enforcement agency had previously said Mexico wouldn't accept underage migrants as part of the program, and that it wouldn't extend the policy beyond the El Chaparral pedestrian border crossing in Tijuana.
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Following years of drought and a summer of record-breaking heat, immense tracts of forests, chaparral and grasslands have become tinder that allows even a small spark to explode into a devouring blaze, authorities said. Gov.
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Some smaller fires have broken out, including the so-called Ranch fire in Tehama County, which has burned about 470 acres of brush and chaparral, with some evacuations advised late Sunday but none ordered, officials said.
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On a Saturday morning in early May, several dozen Central American migrants gathered on a stretch of concrete outside the El Chaparral border crossing, the main point of entry to the United States from Tijuana, Mexico.
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On a Tuesday evening in early June, I checked in with one of these charities: Mustard Seed & Rainbow Ministries, a tiny church located in Chaparral, New Mexico, a community some 30 miles southeast of Las Cruces.
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Oil and natural gas producer Chaparral Energy Inc wants an additional 90 days to file a plan to exit bankruptcy, arguing in court papers it needs more time for talks with its stakeholders on its restructuring.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Privately held oil and gas exploration and production company Chaparral Energy Inc will not make an interest payment due April 13 tied to a $300 million bond, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The center of the American asylum crisis is the El Chaparral plaza in Tijuana, which sits at the foot of the western pedestrian bridge to enter the US at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California.
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Central American migrants, part of a group of 87 people deported from the US, wait in a van at the El Chaparral border crossing before being transported to a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 22, 2019.
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Then after being blocked on the street in front of the Chaparral border crossing by metal barriers and another line of federal police with shields, a group walked to a train border crossing a few minutes away.
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Then, after being blocked on the street in front of the Chaparral border crossing by metal barriers and another line of federal police with shields, the group walked to a train border crossing a few minutes away.
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The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 22 just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has already scorched 38,3503 acres (15,378 hectares) of parched chaparral and timberland in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
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The deadly Carr fire in Shasta County is the sixth-largest fire in California history and last month destroyed more than 1,000 homes — some in or near fire-prone wildlands known for oak trees and flammable chaparral.
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Winds gusting to nearly 20 mph (32 kph) at times drove the fire through dense chaparral on the foothill slopes and along ridgetops, sending up an enormous column of smoke that smeared the sky for miles around.
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The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 2200 just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has grown to 40,000 acres (16,187 hectares) of parched chaparral and timberland in and around the Los Padres National Forest.
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Upon arrival, they put their names down on a waiting list at the El Chaparral border crossing and received a number that, when called, would give them their chance to cross the border make their asylum claim.
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To the south, firefighters battled flames roaring through dry brush and chaparral near the Mexican border for a third day, prompting authorities to expand evacuation orders around the desert community of Potrero with 1,000 structures under threat.
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Immigrants post a number from the waiting list, indicating that only 10 people that day will have the chance to cross the US border and apply for asylum at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.
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A man holds a US flag as others negotiate with Mexican police officers during their gathering near the El Chaparral port of entry of border crossing between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 22.
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Estación Federal está a solo cinco minutos a pie del cruce mexicano de El Chaparral, "un poquito al sur del sur de San Diego, un poquito al norte del norte de Tijuana", como anuncia la publicidad en línea.
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So far, the so-called Sherpa Fire burning in chaparral and tall grass about 25 miles (26 km) northwest of Santa Barbara has led to the evacuation of hundreds of residents from ranches and campgrounds in the hilly area.
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On Thursday, as a steady rain fell and partially flooded the sports complex serving as the main shelter, it was Mexican police who stopped more than a dozen migrants from the caravan approaching the nearby El Chaparral border crossing.
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There were a lot more of them, something like 40,20063, grazing over 96 square miles of mountainous island covered in dense chaparral, little oak woodlands, deep canyons, towering cliffs, and some of the largest sea caves in the world.
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This past May, a couple of months before I discovered iNaturalist, my partner, Ryan, and I went hiking with my family in the hills west of San Jose, where clumps of trees and chaparral mottle pillows of golden grass.
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SF-based Elroy Air hopes to transform bulk air cargo shipping with its "Chaparral" vertical take-off and landing craft, the first version of which will be able to carry 250 pounds of cargo as far as 300 miles.
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Stoked by high winds as it roared through dense, sun-baked chaparral, the blaze raged largely unchecked for the first few days, but by Thursday firefighting teams had managed to carve containment lines around 25 percent of the perimeter.
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The so-called Soberanes Fire erupted last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has raged through nearly 2000,215 acres of drought-parched chaparral, tall grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
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The so-called Soberanes Fire erupted last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has raged through nearly 225,225 acres of drought-parched chaparral, tall grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
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Still, about 200 migrants from the caravan who intended to seek asylum — accompanied by other caravan participants, supporters and dozens of journalists — set off in a procession from downtown Tijuana to the El Chaparral border crossing, setting up the standoff.
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The 1,215-pound aircraft is a full-scale testing version of the eventual planned commercially deployed Chaparral system, and managed to fly to a height of 10 feet, hovering for just over a minute before returning in a controlled landing.
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However it started, the fire was fueled by strong Santa Ana winds and by the overall lack of precipitation this fall and winter, turning the brush, tall grass and chaparral in the area into fuels, according to the Forest Service.
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Say yes so I let him run me to the limits in a pickup though I know better than to expect the chaparral to grow much through trauma except in order to withstand extinction though it appears under the smog supernatural.
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Alex Mensing, project coordinator for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a transnational group that organized the caravan, told reporters gathered at El Chaparral that the migrants would remain at the gate, overnight if necessary, until border officials once again had the capacity to process them.
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The so-called Soberanes Fire ignited last Friday just south of the upscale oceanside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and has roared through nearly 2000,215 acres (2783,000 hectares) of drought-parched chaparral, grass and timber into the Los Padres National Forest.
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Meza's family had made it to the El Chaparral border crossing, which straddles the Mexican city of Tijuana and San Diego on the U.S. side, after leaving their home in the violent city of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras two months ago.
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A spokesman for the Chaparral Cultural Association, which organized the parade, said the group had also called the Israeli embassy to explain that it had not intended to cause insult and that the aim had been to honor victims "with maximum respect".
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They were among 100,000 residents forced to flee after a fierce, wind-driven wildfire swept through foothills and canyons along the northern edge of Los Angeles on Friday, engulfing homes, closing roads and devouring acre upon acre of dry brush and chaparral.
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Fire officials said the heat was a major factor in worsening a wind-driven blaze roaring through dry brush and chaparral about 50 miles east of San Diego, north of the Mexico border, forcing evacuations of dozens of homes in the desert community of Potrero.
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The Otero County Prison Facility -- which is in Chaparral, New Mexico, about 30 minutes North of the Texas town -- is putting on an event Friday on its grounds, where inmates will be selling loaded baked potatoes to prison staff ... in an effort to raise money.
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Chaparral Energy Inc won court approval on Thursday for its plan to exit the Chapter 11 bankruptcy that it launched last May, clearing the way for the oil and gas producer to cut about $1.2 billion in debt with a debt-to-equity swap.
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Fire officials said the Woolsey Fire had little to do with forest management because it occurred mostly in dry brush, chaparral and oak woodlands, and the Paradise Fire began in an area consisting primarily of private timber and scrub not managed by the government.
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Across the North American West, from Wanblee, South Dakota, to the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon; from the Coronado National Forest near the Mexican border in Arizona to Fort Fraser in British Columbia and even farther north, grasses, chaparral, and forest are all ablaze.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chaparral Energy Inc aims to have its bankruptcy exit plan confirmed next month, which may require suing a co-owner of a carbon dioxide pipeline to advance the sale of the asset, the bankrupt oil and gas producer said in court papers on Friday.
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The other inductees, announced Wednesday , include former Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Mark Grace, former Brophy College Prep swimmer Gary Hall Jr., long-time Arizona Wildcats softball head coach Mike Candrea, Xavier College Preparatory director and golf coach Sister Lynn Winsor and former Chaparral softball coach Jeff Oscarson.
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Mexico has long been a country of transit for migrants seeking to reach the US. In the days after the Supreme Court decision, the crowds waiting to request asylum at El Chaparral included migrants from Cameroon, Turkey, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, among others.
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However, Richard Halsey, the director of the California Chaparral Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of shrub land, said the fires of the past two months had proved what he argued has become the increasing futility of brush-removal programs that might have been effective.
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Fires whipped by strong winds were raging through thousands of acres of forests and chaparral in both Northern and Southern California on Monday, having already wiped out a town in the Sierra Nevada and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents west of Los Angeles.
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In the south, it's almost 100,000 acres put to flame in the mountains that meet the sea, with deer left charred in their tracks, an iconic Western-set movie ranch burned into black and white, the sweet-scented chaparral and sage highlands all of a moonscape.
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The Metamorph Cleansing Balm ($80) pairs calming desert herbs (sage, chaparral) with purifying babassu oil; the Amber Elix Face Oil ($120) is infused with hydrating prickly pear oil and evokes the feeling of "standing on canyon rims and smelling warm air through the pinions, junipers and ponderosas," Yates says.
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"The fire risk potential is quite high, particularly in Central and Southern California, where either the hope for El Nino rains didn't really come but there were enough rains to cause more brush to grow and chaparral to grow," said Mark Bove, a senior research meteorologist for Munich Reinsurance America.
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This month, hundreds of migrants from Central America and Africa have assembled outside Tijuana's El Chaparral border office, in hopes of being granted asylum in the US. Yet given new rules announced by the Trump administration last week, the scene they've found upon arrival has been one of charged uncertainty.
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Driven by 50 mph Santa Ana winds—bone-dry katabatic air moving at freeway speeds out of the Mojave desert—the fire transformed overnight from a 5,000-acre burn in a charming chaparral-lined canyon to an inferno the size of Orlando, Florida, that only stopped spreading because it reached the Pacific.
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This trip will remain memorable in a very different sense: Rather than the impressive chaparral yucca or beautiful orange bush monkeyflowers on the trail, I have an image seared into my brain of a stranger literally appearing out of thin air to help me in a sun-scorched ravine during a heat wave.
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From this perspective, the Woolsey fire that raged near Malibu in November, and the massive Thomas fire, which burned between Ventura and Santa Barbara from December 2017 into the new year, are just part of a mosaic that extends through the mix of chaparral shrubland and residential development that surrounds the region's coastal cities.
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