Corrections to Fire, Chaparral and Survival in Southern California
(first printing)
There weren't a lot but, alas, despite our best efforts a few typos slipped through. Here they are. Go ahead and print this page and use it to make the appropriate changes. Only those corrections that either change or clarify factual material in the book are listed. Those pesky, relatively harmless typos will be dealt with in the second printing.
Pg. ix, second paragraph, line 13. Replace west with “north” of Highway 52
Pg. 45, second paragraph, last line, replace (#1) with “(#41)”
Pg. 49, Fig 3-2a change:
Structures for Oakland Hills fire to “3,403”
Acres for Cedar fire to “273,246”
Acres for 2003 Firestorm to “750,043” and Structure to “3,710”
Pg. 65, second paragraph, line 8, add “the” before Australian and add a comma “,” after the word model.
Pg. 75, in section 1 Legal Brush Clearance, replace first sentence with, “California Resources Code 4219 requires vegetation modification for a minimum distance of 100 feet around any structure located in a fire hazardous area (clearance of flammable vegetation within the first 30 feet, then an additional 70 feet of thinning).”
Pg. 101, Fig. 6-2 add an “a” to 2004 as in “Keeley 2004a”
Pg. 110, last paragraph, line 4: change figure 6-6 to “figure 6-5”
Pg. 110-111, last sentence on pg. 110, A wildfire…replace with: “When a wildfire occurs early in the post-treatment timeline, the treatment will be most effective in providing protection and risk reduction, but only minimally effective when a wildfire occurs late in the timeline.”
Pg. 112, footnote should indicate the Oct/Nov 2004 issue
Pg. 113, Figure 6-7, change cause of Pass, Old, and Otay fires to “Arson” and Grand Prix/Old, Paradise, and Mountain fires to “Equipment Use”
Pg. 131, animal #1 should be a Big-eared woodrat, add the “ed”
Pg. 135, replace bicolor with “concinnus”
Pg. 134, plant #8 is an Obligate Resprouter
Pg. 135, plant #40 is an Obligate Seeder
Pg. 142, plant photo #11, delete “Everlasting” refers to how long flowers last and replace with: “Everlasting” for stiff phyllaries around flower head.
Pg. 145, plant photo #18, replace sentence after = and replace with: for the hairy stems/sepals of some species after an intoxicated, bearded and portly Greek god.
Pg. 150, plant photo #27, L. bicolor needs to be changed L. concinnus under photo and in the Details section.
Pg. 156, plant #40 is an Obligate Seeder
Pg. 158, plant photo #43, first paragraph: replace “mine” with “mime”
Pg. 159, plant #46 is a Facultative Seeder
Pg. 163, plant photo #54, replace genera abbreviation C. with “A.”
Pg. 167, plant photo #62, delete Details description and replace with: “Three species in left photo: Left, E. moschatum, center, E. botrys, right, E. cicutarium. Corkscrew seeds unwind with moisture (E. botrys in right photo).”