“The nature center is gone,” Richard Smart, superintendent of the Eaton Canyon Natural Area in Pasadena, said Thursday. “The wildflowers, the shrubs are gone.” The park hosted dozens of ...

Mace’s job includes developing plans for how the county should manage Eaton Canyon and its other natural areas. She has spent the last year researching the canyon’s unique landscape.

There’s still concern about the potential for mudslides and rockslides in L.A. County areas recently burned ... at the base of the structure in Eaton Canyon just as the fire was getting started ...

Now, much of that refuge has been burned in the raging wildfires around Los Angeles.