Forest Slowly Recovering a Year After Wildfire
From Staff and Wire Reports
A year after suffering the worst wildfire in this forest’s history, residents and forestry officials say the landscape is healing and campers are returning.
The wildfire that started on July 21, 2002, burned 150,696 acres over four months -- taking 2,000 firefighters six weeks to contain at a cost of $60 million.
A Bakersfield woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to starting the fire.
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