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California Chaparral Smoke

California Chaparral Fire

This may be a COPYWRITED image by David McNew. Its perpose here is to demonstrate that the bark and leaves of the shrubs are typically what burns in a wildfire. This is California chaparral but the same is true of any other wildfire where woody plants are part of the fuel.

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