Thanks everyone for giving the report a read and for the kind comments.
bj40 - we definitely found signs of recent wildfire. The aspen stands are quickly recovering, it may have even rejuvenated them. The mountain mahogany that burned will be a little slower to recover. The higher you get the more healthy the grasses are, as cheatgrass drops out (not entirely) but the cheat is thriving in lower areas that burned. I thought while we were there that it may have been the Long Draw fire (Oregon's largest in recent times) but upon arriving home and consulting that fire map I found out I was wrong. There have been a lot of large fires in that country in the past decade or two, so the names start to escape me.