Address:

P.O. Box 545 Escondido, California 92033

Organization Profile:
To Promote an understanding and respect for the chaparral and the Mediterranean climate in which southern Californians live in order to:

* Encourage an active interest in learning about the chaparral, the organisms living there, its evolutionary development, and the dynamic relationship it has with fire

* Develop wildland and growth management policies that will lower the risk of fire crossing over the wildland/urban interface

* Help save lives and homes from wildfire through continuing education efforts

* Permanently secure the value of protecting chaparral as an important natural resource in public policy for the benefit of future generations

* Foster a reconnection to the natural environment

* Facilitate better communication between the scientific and
firefighting communities

Contact: Richard Halsey E-mail: naturalist@californiachaparral.com Phone: 760-822-0029 Home Page Address: www.californiachaparral.com