 His son Hobart Skofield planted many pines in the canyon in the early 1930s.In the Coyote Fire the trees burned down, but were replanted in 1966 by the Sierra Club.In 1970, Hobart Skofield sold the upper of the canyon for $150,000, less than half of its value, to be made into a wilderness park, the Rattlesnake Canyon Wilderness Area.