California is famously home to the oldest ... Douglas Kent, a landscape architect who specializes in fire safety, said that native trees, such as coastal oaks, are especially fire resistant ...

Firefighters said they stopped the wildfire's forward spread, but there was still the threat of flareups on Tuesday.

California buckeye and Pacific madrone trees, among other shrubs and perennials, and restore the area to a native California oak woodland. Since the forest is near the reservoir, it is considered ...