Rancho Soñado serves as the headquarters for Inside the Outdoors®, an environmental education facility located off Silverado Canyon. The Santiago Fires surrounded the Ranch but didn't harm any of the buildings.

From their website:

"Surrounded by preserves and national forest, Rancho Soñado gives your students a chance to explore local ecology in a pristine environment. Ecosystems represented include a pond, a riparian area, oak woodland, and chaparral."

And, true to their mission, they're already turning burned chapparal into chapparal-ade: (click over for great pictures)

"Rancho Soñado is surrounded by the chapparal ecosystem.  Historically, fire swept through chaparral areas approximately every 20 to 30 years. Not only are most of the chaparral plants well adapted to resisting fire, but some of the species, such as laurel sumac (Rhus laurina), rely on fire for their persistence or rejuvenation. Some of the plants, such as toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), chamise (Adenstoma fasciculatum), and laurel sumac (Rhus laurina), have basal burls or root crowns from which branches resprout after a fire.  Other chaparral plants have a seed bank underground in which seeds are deposited during non-fire years. After a fire, the parent plant is burned which results in the seeds receiving the water, space, light, and nutrients that they need in order to germinate and grow. Laurel sumac (Rhus laurina) seeds are thought to germinate only after being exposed to the heat from a fire (Vogl 1998)."