Pinyon Pine Nut Question/ Drought

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Tried to collect pine nuts around Frazier Park last weekend. Hit a few spots but all the nuts were dried out. Even the ones in green cones were tiny and hard as rock/ completely hollow inside the shell.

I'm wondering if anyone here has collected pine nuts the past few years. Either in Frazier or Mammoth. I saw zero Pinyon Pine saplings < 5 years old. Is it because of the drought?

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.you might be better off just buying some....i worked on a ranch in western new mexico and there the harvested them by the tons and shipped them everywhere across the west.........ancient native type of survival food..........

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Well you know how it goes: not about the fish, it's about the fishing.