May 2005, looking up upper Big Tujunga Canyon. Behind the foreground yuccas many more dot the hills. Now Eric's former house,  these yuccas, this entire canyon and range, are ashes, mingled with the charred remains of millions of animals. The fire burned nearly 200 square miles of mountain scenery in the San Gabriels, a third of the Angeles National Forest. It won't recover during my lifetime.