SMITHVILLE, Texas (AP) — Traces of recovery are appearing amid scars of a devastating wildfire that raced last month through more than 5,000 acres in Central Texas, including half of the 1,000-acre Buescher State Park. Wildflowers now are emerging from ashes left behind after the second severe fire in four years in the popular Lost Pines area near Bastrop, about 40 miles east of Austin. ......
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