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Sound Ecology: Manzanitas, Rockstars of Floristic California

KHSU | By Jessica Eden

Published June 9, 2016 at 10:27 AM PDT

Naturalist Michael Kauffman celebrates the great variety and unique ecological adaptations of manzanitas in California.

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Jessica Eden

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