Hidden Cameras Spot Wildlife Returning Home After 2018 US Megafire

During the summer of 2018, the Mendocino Complex Fire ripped through UC’s Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC), transforming the Northern California property’s grassy, oak-dotted hillsides into a smoldering, ash-covered wasteland.

“It felt like something out of the Lord of the Rings — like Mordor. It was hard...