[pct-l] distressing info about section d

[Postholer]

Likewise. It takes more than a lifetime for the forest to regenerate. SoCal 
is becoming nothing more than a high/low altitude desert. The mega disaster 
that is waiting in Big Bear with all it's beetle destroyed trees will really 
add to the ambience 'when' it happens.

> I so share in this grief.  We probably need a support group; I suppose 
> this
> community is it.  My spirits were lifted tremendously by visiting the
> section of the forest that did not burn, over on the backside.

>> Every time I read about how a forest will "bounce back" I cringe.  Like 
>> the
>> rest you, I have hiked through many a burned zone years after the fire. 
>> All
>> I see, even ten+ years past, is a carpet of chaparral in a garden of 
>> silent
>> and dead tree trunks.
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