![]() Setting out after sunrise, the team hiked four miles and 2,000 feet up an old logging road in Pescadero Creek County Park, then dropped into deep woods, scrambling for a quarter mile down a steep hillside littered with burned stumps and ash. LOMA MAR, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 18: Sean Correa, a natural resource specialist from Moss Beach, kneels among trees burned by the CZU Fire at Butano Ridge in Loma Mar, Calif., on Friday, March 18, 2022. “But they are so specialized, and restricted in their range, that any loss would be extreme,” she said. “We know they can regenerate after a fire,” said Hannah Ormshaw, assistant director of San Mateo County Parks, who led the expedition. A Bay Area News Group reporter and photographer tagged along. ![]() Is the grove forever gone? On an early March morning, two years after 2020’s catastrophic CZU Lightning Complex fire, a team of San Mateo County Parks naturalists ventured miles into the wilderness to find out. Relics of the past, a single stand of rare cypress trees once grew atop a small slab of sandstone on a remote, rugged ridge along the San Mateo County coast. ![]()
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