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3 unusual facts about chaparral


Chaparral

Prunus fasciculata, Desert almond, (commonly infested with tent caterpillars of Malacosoma spp.)

Chaparral, Calgary

Chaparral was established in 1995, and named for the mediterranean climate biome.

Jay Schlueter

Following his playing career, Schlueter became a dedicated coach and supporter of all youth and high school sports in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Chaparral, New Mexico.


Arab diaspora in Colombia

They later expanded to other cities and by 1945 there were Arab Middle Easterners moving inland like Ocaña, Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Ibagué, Girardot, Honda, Tunja, Villavicencio, Pereira, Soatá, Neiva, Buga, Chaparral and Chinácota.

California Floristic Province

In Baja California, the province includes the forest and chaparral belts of the Sierra Juarez and the Sierra San Pedro Martir (but excluding their desert slopes to the east), coastal areas south to about El Rosario, and Guadalupe Island.

Cansema

Common ingredients of black salves include zinc chloride and chaparral, also known as creosote bush (Latin name Larrea tridentata).

Chaparral Cars

In the 2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Gil de Ferran painted his Acura ARX-02a to resemble a Chaparral in tribute to Jim Hall, for whose team de Ferran drove in his first two seasons in CART, and also to commemorate de Ferran's final professional race.

Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve

Chaparral Prairie supports the most extensive population of rattlesnake-master in the state.

Charles Deutsch

He used the ground-effect on race cars 10 years before Chaparral and his #53 entry from "Autombiles Deutsch et Bonnet" won the "Index of Performance" trophy at the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Dallas Chaparrals

The team's original owners, unable to agree on a name for the franchise during an early organizational meeting at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, named it for the Chaparral Club in which they were meeting.

Desolation Wilderness

The sparse woodlands of widely scattered western junipers and lodgepole pines are interrupted by patches of montaine chaparral species such as Pinemat Manzanita, Huckleberry Oak, and Mountain Pride Penstemon clinging to the expanses of barren rock.

Geography of Southern California

Elevations range from 500 ft to 11,500 ft (150 m to 3,500 m) and vegetation in these ranges varies from coastal sage scrub to chaparral, and from oak woodland to conifer forest.

Mark Slade

In 1966, at the age of twenty-seven, he obtained one of his most memorable parts, as Billy Blue Cannon, the blond-haired, blue-eyed son of the ranch patriarch, John Cannon (Leif Erickson) on The High Chaparral, set in the Arizona Territory.

Martin Pousson

His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, The Rattling Wall, Parnassus, ISLE: Oxford Journals, Icon, Chaparral, Verse Daily, Intersection, Love, Bourbon Street, The Louisiana Review, New Orleans Review, and Cimarron Review.

Santa Cruz Mountains

At higher elevations and on sunny south slopes a more drought-resistant chaparral vegetation dominates: manzanita, California scrub oak, chamise, and chaparral pea.

Tommy Marth

Tommy attended Chaparral High School in Las Vegas where he met the future bass player for The Killers, Mark Stoermer in jazz band.

Trans-Am Series

In 1970, all of the American pony car manufacturers were represented with a factory team and top driving talent: Chevrolet had the Chaparral Team Camaro Z28 driven by Jim Hall, Ed Leslie, and Vic Elford.


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