https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/23/big-basin-redwoods-slow-progress-on-rebuilding-after-wildfire-a-massive-job/ > Nearly eight months after Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Big Basin Redwoods State Park to see the damage after a major wildfire, green sprouts are coming back on the blackened trunks of the park’s ancient redwoods. But as a trek into the park revealed this week, not much else has changed on the charred landscape. > Hazardous trees pose a risk. The wreckage of burned buildings and vehicles from the Aug. 19 wildfire still hasn’t been cleared. State officials haven’t completed a damage estimate of how much it will cost to rebuild. And the process for holding public meetings to construct new facilities at Big Basin — California’s oldest state park, whose soaring redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains attracted 1 million visitors a year — hasn’t yet begun.