Where have all the acorns gone?

Where have all the acorns gone?

       Here's one editorial from the Rappahannock News in Virginia, USA:  http://www.rappnews.com/2013/12/05/editorial-where-have-all-the-acorns-gone/126446/

Poster's comments:

1)  This just may be a routine regional problem.

2) I once knew an NC State PhD forester who collected acorn mast data in the Savannah River Swamp between Augusta, Georgia, and Savannah, Georgia. He collected all types of acorns from the various trees, plus the combined total. He did it for years. He also shared his data with this layman.

3)  The Georgia Tech geek in me had me graph the combined totals, and lo and behold, there was a cycle to the whole thing which repeated about every 7 years as I recall.  Like there were good years and bad years, if you depend on acorns for food.

4) I shared my data results, too.

5) I am planning on using acorns, like our American Indians did, if times should get hard. I even have a manual flour maker, just in case. By the way, the acorn coffee was also pretty good, to me.

6)  I would rather go to the grocery store.