[Ramos and a dozen other campers spent the morning Aug. 27 harvesting pine cones with the help of employees of the U.S. Forest Service. Following them on their journey to the past was a documentary film crew from KVCR, a PBS station in San Bernardino. Daniel McCarthy, archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service, was one of the invited guests who got to experience the harvest.] There were an awful lot of people who had never participated in that kind of cultural event before, ... It was rewarding to go along and share with that. |
[When the group returned to camp, the harvesters had bags full of green cones and branches, and sticky fingers from the inevitable sap that comes with the task.] The second part of the process is to extract the pine nuts out of the green cones, ... They have to be heat treated to extract the pine nuts. |
But we're comparing tornado reports, which are probably inflated, with confirmed tornadoes for previous years. |
Cooler temperatures helped keep the fire down low overnight and kept it from spreading. Crews will continue to put fire lines down today to get the fires under control. |
We continue to have little rain and the vegetation is drier than usual, so the potential for more fires is increased. |