8. Chaparral fires "burn everything above ground, leav- 

 ing nothing "but charred stalks. 



4. The roots of the chaparral shrubs are not killed by. 

 fire. "Then the nert rainy season begins, they send up sprouts 

 or perhaps they should bo called suckers, 



5. These suckers grow up in a bushy form, so that the 

 new growth of chaparrcl is generally denser and not quite 

 as high as the original growth, 



6. There is practically no change in the composition of 

 the new growth. 



7. The new growth of chaparral is fully restored in 

 about or 10 years after a fire. 



0. Grasses and herbaceous plants like wild alfalfa or 

 deerweed (lotus glab^r) frequently c0;:ie in after fire, but 

 they are crowded out when tl-e new growth of brush overtops 

 them. i 

 E;5 /, .^tiJBt'and Conclusions Derived from Study of Bear 



LY01TS: 



1, Method. The method used in this study wcs, to 



select temporary sample plots and make reproduction counts 

 on these plots. This necessitated selection of typical plots 

 and a further division of the GO plots into several classes, 

 viz. 1. Dense Bear Clover areas. 8, Bear Clover mised with 

 neaclles. 3. Open spots in Bear Clover areas. 



Careful counts of reproduction on these sample plots 



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