Introduction
Once again, the conditions of the stream favour the undergrowth of the holm oak. Here we find vines such as ivy and smilax aspera; also pistacia lentiscus and buckthorn. Large stone pines occupy the site of the original holm oak. We also find weakened holm oaks, in some of which woodpeckers have tried to build their nests. (3 holes in the trunk). In the stream, the holm oaks grow bigger. So much so that someone thought it was worth stripping their bark off. The cork extraction process takes place in summer and mobilises groups of cork-makers dedicated to the extraction thereof, which we can find occurring in areas where cork oaks have dominated since the middle of the 18th Century. The work consists of making a circular cut with an axe in the tree's trunk, separating the bark in strips lengthwise and removing the cork with the help of the axe handle or a stick. Cork-makers were "men of the forest", people who, apart from extracting cork in the summer, spent large periods of time in forested areas, exploring the different resources that the forest had to offer (firewood, resin, pinecones, etc.)