BURN SCARS YOU CAN STILL SEE THE BURN SCARS that dot the hills near the campus where I live, which is on the unceded territory of the Awas- was-speaking Uypi tribe and the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Last year's CZU Lightning Complex fires burned over 86,000 acres in Santa Cruz County and brought ash from counties far away. When the rains came in February, sev- eral areas were evacuated from potential debris flow as a result of the fires' devastation. We've lost power, too, here and there, because the electrical grid has been damaged. Remarkably, you can see much more wildlife than usual – either because they have been displaced due to their natural habi- tats having been destroyed or because of rewilding, a process where animals return to spaces where they hadn't been allowed to roam freely before. As a result of humans stepping back, ecological restoration is underway, and although the air is cleaner now, the weather remains unpredictable. We're coming up on one year since COVID-19 restrictions have been in place. Since I by GERALD CASEL
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