A hike along the Point Reyes National Seashore’s newly reopened Bear Valley Trail, closed for nine months after last summer’s Woodward Fire, offers abundant signs of nature’s healing: A woodpecker drumming on a blackened tree, wildflowers basking in pockets of sunlight and a lingering scent of charcoal in the air.
“It’s beautiful. I’ve missed it, like part of my body was gone,” said Connie Mery, a Point Reyes Station resident and one of many hikers,…