After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing ...

But clearing dense shrubs on the... The hills above Los Angeles are covered with dense, dark green brush, a unique plant community known as chaparral. In the wake of the extreme wildfires that ...

Joseph Algiers of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area says the native chaparral plants are being replaced by invasive grasses, which are even more flammable. In the mountains north ...