Anxiety has turned to cautious optimism as containment approaches 100 percent on the Woodward Fire this week. Lower humidity and temperatures approaching triple digits over the holiday weekend tested the 4,900-acre blaze, which stayed within the box that firefighters have built around it.
An evacuation order was lifted on 90 homes, and all evacuation warnings were rolled back. The fire, which has burned thick wilderness in the Point Reyes National Seashore for over three weeks,…