Heber City, Utah • Signs of new life are appearing in part of northeastern Utah where a wildfire that torched more than 100 square miles a year ago.
Grasses and flowers are returning to the area, with blue and yellow wildflowers blooming around the trunks of trees charred by the blaze, the Daily Herald reported . Aspens with gradient burns along their trunks grew on dark, charred mountainsides speckled with patches of new green growth.
"It's night and day difference," said Miles Hanberg, the northeast region supervisor for the Utah Department of Natural Resources.