Ghost Forest We had been backpacking around in the west slope high country at the time lightening started this fire. We saw the smoke and wondered, and now four years later, in the canyon that was afire, I see the Oak resprouting and chaparral returning and maybe this unique Oak grove will return, in a century or two. Most of the forest in the central canyon above the Oak perished too. The desert has inherited the lower reaches of this canyon, for quite some time to come. The remains of the forest commemorate in their inscrutable beauty, the knowledge that life can not be, without death in balance.
