CALIFORNIA CHAPARRAL INSTITUTE

CONTACT & LINKS

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CHAPARRAL LINKS

PLACES

  SUBJECT LINKS

Chaparral Plant/Habitat Information:

Plant ID, information, research:

Wayne Armstrong's Natural History Textbook

San Diego County Plant Atlas

Find the location of many plants in San Diego County via Goggle Maps

San Diego County Native Plants by James Lightner

California's Maritime Chaparral (from the Elkhorn Slough Foundation)

Southern Californian Plants (Tom Chester)

Rare Plants of San Diego County

Common Chaparral Plants (San Gabriel Foothills) - Nature at Hand

Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego

Natural History of Orange County, California

Chaparral, Woodland, and Riparian Plants

Chaparral Research papers by Jon E. Keeley

Environmental Literacy Council


Native Plant Nurseries/Gardening:

Tree of Life Nursery (Native plant source in Orange County)

Theodore Payne Foundation (native plants)

Native Plant Source and Information (Las Pilitas Nursery)

Weeding Wild Suburbia - Adventures with Native Plants

Growing Native


Botanical/Nature Appreciation Organizations:

California Native Plant Society-San Diego

Save the Chaparral: a personal blog

Mediterranean Garden Society

California Botanical Society

Southern California Botanists

Escondido Citizens Ecology Committee


Chaparral Animals:

South Coast Wildlands (helping to secure wildlife corridors throughout southern California)

San Diego Audubon

Butterflies and Moths of Southern California

California Grizzly

California Grizzly Bear Reintroduction Team

Cougars

Living with Cougars

Good Book on Cougar Attacks

Birds, butterflies, herps and dragonflies of San Diego County

The Island Fox

Condor Lookout

Other Sites of Interest

Gaviota Coast Wind Safety Project

Avoid Misconceptions When Teaching About Plants

Creek Running North (Excellent Nature Commentary)

Environmental Literacy Council

Kumeyaay (Native American tribes in southwestern California)

California's Gold (Green series) with Huell Howser

Jim Karnik (nature photographer and filmmaker)

Western Regional Climate Center

Climate of Australia (region by region summary)

Fun Stuff:

The term chaparral has been borrowed to name everything from a natural herb to a western television show. No wonder people get confused. Here are a few non-chaparral, chaparral links. Have fun.

The show

More on the show

The town in New Mexico

More about the town (it really is a very strange place)

The herb of questionable value with an FDA health warning

The Stanford Chaparral, a humour magazine

Chaparral in literature

The missle defense system

Chaparral High Schools:

El Cajon, California (actually near some chaparral)

Temecula, California (real chaparral near here too)

Ojai, California (and definitely here)

Scottsdale, Arizona

Parker, Colorado (great music intro)

Las Vegas, Nevada (great ridin' cowboy intro)