It's like that around here now, maybe moreso, and it appears to be that way everywhere. Jim Farquhar, deer biologist for the Department of Environmental Conservation's Region 6, said the word is the same from his colleagues around the state. Some years the crop is very heavy, other years it is very light. Heavy, very heavy, is the deal this year, perhaps because of all the rain we had. For turkeys, deer, bears and other wild creatures, it sure is.
Nuts are full of fat, and that means survival through the lean times of winter.
Forage-wise for deer and turkeys, this really was quite a summer. They're going to go into winter in real good shape, with a lot of fat. Those fat reserves, they're going to use them in the winter. The more they have, the better off they are. They can be.