Deal With It: Your Forest Is Gone

An oddly optimistic story, told mostly in photos.

This weekend, I made my first foray into the El Dorado National Forest since last summer’s devastating 222,000-acre Caldor Fire.

I couldn’t reach the core mountain quail spots I wrote about last month, but I was able tour some lower elevations.

It was bad. Of course.

But oddly, it was not traumatic.

As I rounded the first bend where I could begin to see the…