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MORE The Silverado Fire in October burned through Orange County’s Agua Chinon Canyon, a riparian area that the Irvine Ranch Conservancy had just finished restoring. Photo by Susan Valot. The wind-driven Silverado Fire in Irvine burned 12,466 acres two months ago. The land is a scorched checkerboard with some areas black and barren, and others with signs of life. Crews and volunteers with the Irvine Ranch Conservancy spent the last five years restoring...

MORE The Silverado Fire in October burned through Orange County’s Agua Chinon Canyon, a riparian area that the Irvine Ranch Conservancy had just finished restoring. Photo by Susan Valot. On a recent warm day, Irvine Ranch Conservancy CEO Michael O’Connell walked along Agua Chinon Canyon, in the hills east of Irvine, surveying the damage from October’s Silverado Fire. That wind-driven fire burned 12,466 acres, spitting embers into neighborhoods. Tw...