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Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

Title:The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:SALEM::PAPPALARDO
Created:Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1561
Total number of notes:17784

473.0. "NE Mast crop 1989" by SA1794::CHARBONND (It's a hardship post) Thu Sep 21 1989 09:06

    What is the mast crop like in New England like this
    year ? Acorns, beechnuts, etc.
    
    I ask because I haven't seen many acorns in my forays 
    into Western Mass., or Vermont. (Admittedly not enough
    time out there.)
    
    The reports on bear season in Mass. say the crop is
    good, but I've seen large tracts of oaks with NO nuts.
    What gives ?
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473.1GIAMEM::J_AMBERSONThu Sep 21 1989 09:474
    Around my house in Northboro there are ALOT of acorns. Seems
    to definitely above average.
    
    Jeff
473.2bumper cropSALEM::MACGREGORI'm the NRA/GONH/NAHCThu Sep 21 1989 10:018
    In N.H. it looks like a bumper crop year for nuts. Up north in the
    White Mts. for example the bears have been climbing trees for
    beechnuts. You wouldn't believe how many beech trees that I have
    come across with claw marks in the bark from where they have been
    going up and down the trees. My brother for example got a shot at
    a bear in a beech tree a couple of weekends ago. Acorns are also
    in abundance too.
    							Bret
473.3Mast!! up the ying yang!IOENG::TESTAGROSSAdtn 297-7581Thu Sep 21 1989 10:384
    It's definetly the best year for mast that I recall in quite a while!
    
    
    Barry
473.4Don't look up!SALEM::AYOTTEThu Sep 21 1989 12:432
      Wear a helmet if you venture out now!
473.5WE COULD USE SOME!LETO::HORNThu Sep 21 1989 13:453
    Send some nuts out our way!  we didn't get the rains needed for a good 
    crop this year in Arizona.  you'll only find them around the rivers.
    even the prickly pear crop (another bear favorite) is lighter.
473.6chock full of nuts...DELNI::G_FISHERThu Sep 21 1989 16:314
    looks good in central mass and upper state new york...
    
    
    Guy