Thread: Heavy acorn crop

Usually the timber company cut the oaks down then burn, chip or let them rot..they are in the pine tree business and oaks shade their pine trees..

Up here they are cutting the pine on state land and leaving the oak

the tree folks that know what is up figured out long ago to leave a portion of hardwoods in place to ensure a better balance and crop of pines down the road in most places .
not many hammer oaks like they used to back in the day , learned that years ago hunting in eastern Arkansas , likely it doesn't apply everywhere though as some pine spots look to be just pines as I pass them by ...

I guess bugs got into the pines on a tree farm near me. They bulldozed them into piles and burned them all. Cultivated the ground and burned the roots too. Now it's a soybean field.
I had 2 white oaks and 2 persimmons at my other house. Deer would be under them when the fruit was falling. Never got enough persimmons to make jam.
I have a white oak and a red oak in this yard with acorns starting to fall. I'll rake and bag, carry them to a wooded area as winter goes.

Lol… I like those ferns. Nice scrape.

I saw a doe near here and jumped another deer when I walked up to take the picture. This is right next to the fresh cuttings where I shot my squirrel today.

“Rubs” are typically just sign posts , bigger rubs on the same tree a few years in a row often tell the tale of a line of travel for an older buck .
Never seen does go to rubs , but have seen multiple young bucks rub the same tree before , watched 4 youngsters emerge and descend on a mesquite one at a time and the 4 of them effectively shredded that little mesquite.
A less seasoned hunter would have looked at it and thought WOW a monster buck destroyed this tree ...