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A Chula Vista firefighter walks away from the Harris fire in San Diego County in October. Scientists worry that native coastal sage and chaparral may be replaced by invasive grasses in areas that burned in 2003 and again last year.

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A Chula Vista firefighter walks away from the Harris fire in San Diego County in October. Scientists worry that native coastal sage and chaparral may be replaced by invasive grasses in areas that burned in 2003 and again last year.

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