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[Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>]

> From: "Kathy Johnson" <rrabbits@si4u.net>
> Well, we aren't growing the trees but we live near Trinity National Forest
> and my husband commutes through there to work every day.  On his way, there
> are some pines with gigantic cones and whenever  some have dropped to one of
> the pullout areas he gathers them and we use the pine-nuts.

The sugar pine was a prized food source before EuroAmericans arrived acc. to
Glenn Farris in "The Quest for Pinenuts" in *Before the Wilderness* ed. by
Blackburn and Anderson. The men would climb the trees to pick cones. And
they enjoyed high status (while they lived- those sugar pines are
TAAALLLLLLL!)

-Rick

make mine pinyones from the SW! Little trees!