SBR continued: Over several years that ensued I continued to find her tracks on or near trails over a considerable range of territory.
Often I would scent her presence & know that I was being studied from concealment. Sometimes she left little messages behind like
a tree limb twisted into a knot high above the trail or feather wedged into bark. She was such a tease. In the meantime, forage in
the local tidelands was disappearing, fewer & fewer dungeness crabs. The queducks had been illegally poached away by comercial
divers Then too there was a major clam die-off caused by a toxic spill from the pulp mill. The beaches became paved with dead, empty shells.
Little remained but a few horse clams & turbine snails. The woods still produced copious varieties of mushrooms, but again hikers were
reducing the number of the more delectable species.(psyllisibes especially)
. Very few people are aware of a variety of wild ginseng,
(not eleuthera, i.e, devil´s club), or of a species of jiaogulan that also produces adaptogens & saponins. Wild carrot,(Queen Anne´s lace),
is still abundant, but risky to harvest for those who cannot distinguish it from hemlock. In late spring Skoocum is fond of new spruce/doug fir
buds which are loaded with vitamin C. Additionally their digestive tracts have adapted to convert the terpinoids into fatty acids. I digress,
(frequently) tbc,
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