At this very moment I am hiking at the base of Granite Mountain, near Prescott, Arizona. I am nowhere near Camp Lionheart, my summer "research lab," so to speak, and I am finding an aberration of nature here that is confirming what I've seen there but have said nothing about. Since my primary study for the last two years has been the gathering of local indigenous foods for medicine and (obviously) food, I was very concerned that the most important food sources for winter storage were not bearing fruit this year. So far, wherever I have hiked near Prescott this has been the case.
Here's the short rundown. Very few oak trees of any indigenous species have produced a single acorn. Arizona black walnut trees have not produced walnuts. Extremely few manzanitas have any berries at all. Junipers have largely given no fruit. I have only found one canyon grape vine with grapes. Barren vines are everywhere. The entire forest in and around the Prescott Basin, as far as I can see, appears to be barren, empty of the most important foods for animals and ancient food gatherers. I had hoped to study and revive the old food gathering arts of our predecessors, but if this had been 1810 instead of 2010, I'm pretty sure this problem would have led to a Fall and Winter famine.
Maybe I'm ignorant of some basic scientific fact, like there was just allot less rain. Or if the Fall of 2009 had a bountiful natural harvest, the Fall of 2010 should obviously bring starvation. But I'm not willing to assume that just yet.
Instead, I'm being led to ask what at least 90% of Americans would probably think is an extremely stupid question. The kind of question only someone who belongs in a padded room would ever ask. Here it is. Ready? Could it be that the same extremely (grossly unnaturally) high levels of aluminum particulates scientists have been discovering in soils all over America is also in the soil around Prescott? And since there was discussion that the aluminum content of those soil samples would cause plants there not to produce fruit, could that be happening here? Not that there's any kind of conspiracy, of course! No, it's just a question, not an answer.
However, there was an excessive amount of something being spread by aircraft through the air over Prescott all throughout the summer of 2009, and in prior years prior also. I took lots of photos and video, hoping that if the wilderness foods I was eating were just causing hallucinations, I would see later that there were no crisscrossing patterns of aerosol in my photos or videos anymore. I want to tear my eyeballs out. Not only are those chemical clouds still visible in my photos and videos, but everyone I've shown them to can also see the chemtrails! My invisible friends have just been no help in solving this mystery.
In the recently released YouTube documentary, What in the World Are They Spraying? it was revealed that those chemical clouds contain aluminum, barium and strontium. And eventually that delicious mix of toxins drifts down or comes down in the rain and pollutes everything it lands on. Hence the high aluminum content researchers were finding in the soil and water, and in the air, and all over the leaves and bark of whatever plant life was tested.
Not that there's anything unusual or conspiratorial going on! No, not that! I'm just a little irritated that almost none of the wilderness foods I experimented with last year are growing this year. That's all. It's probably nothing important.
Oh Yeah... and why are the oak leaves all around Camp Lionheart shrivelling up like they're reacting to chemical burn? There's that too. Never mind. I'm sure it's nothing.
