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INTRO: ------- WALKING IN DRY FOREST SFX: Dat #4 1:05:30 or 1:06:20 TRX: IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW DRY THINGS ARE IN ARIZONA, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HIKE IN THE WOODS. WALKING IN DRY FOREST SFX: separate trax with SFX briefly here TRX: TAMMY RANDALL-PARKER IS A FOREST RANGER ON THE COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST, LOCATED EAST OF THE GRAND CANYON IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. KNEELING BENEATH A TOWERING PONDEROSA PINE TREE, SHE DIGS THROUGH THE DUFF WITH HER HANDS. TAMMY RANDALL-PARKER: Dat #4 1:00:22 (digs down into ground) // 1:00:43 (rubs hands together to brush off needles) “…I just dug down, what, a good seven inches into the ground. It’s dry as a bone…” WALKING IN DRY FOREST SFX: Dat #4 1:05:51 (bird + walking sfx) – After actuality, bring up sound efx to run under next narration TRX: A THICK BROWNISH LAYER OF TREE BARK, BRANCHES, PINE CONES AND NEEDLES COVERS THE FOREST. THE COCONINO IS FILLED WITH DENSE GROVES OF PINE, ASPEN AND JUNIPER TREES, MANY A CENTURY OLD. RANDALL-PARKER STOPS TO SIT ON THE TRUNK OF A PINE TREE THAT’S FALLEN IN THE FOREST. TAMMY RANDALL-PARKER: Dat #4 20:45 “…This year, we are drier than we’ve been in 106 years since they’ve been recording // moisture. It hasn’t been this dry in 106 years. The forests have become a tinderbox because they are so dry. The fuel, moisture content, in the pine needles (breaks up needles) you can hear ‘em crunch in my hands. The other things that are real susceptible to burning in a stand like this is like this log we are sitting on. And the fuel content for this log, on an average year, would be somewhere between 15 and 20%. Right now, these guys are sitting at 0 to 1%: there’s no moisture left in this log. And the same is true for the Ponderosa Pine trees. The fuel moisture is very very low. They’re right there teetering on being dead…” OUTDOOR FOREST AMBY: Dat #4, 1:31:10 or 1:31:30 or 1:32:15 (with flies buzzing past) or 1:34:30 – if you need to use it for above axx or the one below PARK SERVICE RADIO SFX: Dat #5, 19