Twenty years after the Mount Vision fire burned thousands of acres in the Point Reyes National Seashore, Bishop pines—which rely on fire to regenerate—once again cover the landscape. But many of those trees are infected with the pine pitch canker fungus. As dead branches and trees accumulate, so does the potential for catastrophic wildfire.
“It is creating a significant fuel load that is very untypical of our coastal climate,” said Jordan Reeser, the fire management…