New York Times: Greenery has begun to cover the scars of a fire that ripped through 32,000 acres of Central Texas three years ago. Feeding on tinder and trees withered from a searing drought, the Bastrop County wildfire burned for nine days and destroyed more than 1,600 homes before it was brought under control. Also lost was 96 percent of Bastrop State Park, a 6,565-acre home to the loblolly Lost Pines Forest and the endangered Houston toad. As shrubs and seedlings have taken hold in the scorched land, park officials…

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