https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/10/family-determined-to-keep-fire-ravaged-santa-cruz-christmas-tree-farm-going/

For more than 70 years, families have flocked to the Crest Ranch Christmas Tree Farm, high atop 2,600-foot Ben Lomond mountain, hunting for the perfect holiday tree and lasting memories.

All that changed this year, when a raging wildfire swept down the mountains near Santa Cruz, narrowly missing the 46-acre farm at first, before turning and consuming about 40,000 of the Christmas trees growing there.