You may recall a post from late last year where I lamented that protecting our beautiful earth requires constant vigilance, that it takes just one person to destroy it and once gone it can be gone forever. That was about the time the Schulman Grove visitor center in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest burned to the ground. http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2008/09/08/it-just-takes-one/
There was a suspicion that the fire was the act of arson. At the same time there was a rash of vandalism up and down the Eastern Sierra. An arrest was made – John Thomas Christiana. But he wasn’t tied to the visitor center burning although there was some very interesting circumstantial evidence in his possession such as cans of gasoline.
Well, he apparently confessed.