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Letter From the Desert: Relict Populations

Letter From the Desert: Relict Populations

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Chris Clarke
Nov 01, 2019
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This weekend I left the desert. I spent time watching things go up in flames. Some of the flames were literal. My homeland is on fire. Tens of thousands of acres of California: on fire. Manzanita and ceanothus wilt and smolder, catch and burn. Live oaks and poison oak. Chamise and toyon. Pipevine and clematis. All of them surrounded by pale introduced g…

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