Acorn crop failures seems to have a much more dramatic impact in areas like Jackson county that are dominated by lots of closed canopied hardwoods as compared to other areas…..I guess the deer are forced to move more and move farther and therefore more get killed……You don’t see the same kind of big swings up and down in annual harvest in other areas dominated by pine plantations and such…….
Jackson Co ain't all closed canopy , I'd suspect there's more hardwood saw timber logging and hardwood clear cutting going on in Ol' Hi-Jackson than any other county . The County is a giant checkerboard. Oh, we also have a lot of row crops in the river valley and out on the Plateaus of Cumberland and Sand Mts. Something that is only a memory down in the LA Black Belt.
