Months after the Bear Fire blazed through 400 acres of the Santa Cruz Mountains, affected residents are replanting, rebuilding and ensuring local firefighters continue to feel their gratitude.
Recent rains have helped clear some of the ash-covered landscape and ushered in fresh shoots of grass and redwood starts. But resident Marvin Hinshaw said Wednesday that the wooded property around his ridge-top home continues to resemble, more than anything else, the surface of the moon.