I'll respond by saying that liming is both impracticle and unnessesary.Studies have been done and liming did absolutely nothing for oak regeneration.It did help red maple and bracken ferns but they're both species that we don't want to continue to take over.I'd be curious to see how a broadscale liming operation would take place and who would pay for it.Burning is a gret idea and would help but there's huge liability exposures associated with it,making it impracticle to do in Pa.

Still,it wouldn't hurt to lime burn and fertilize if it were practicle and affordable.However,there's no way to do it to the whole state.It's also not correct to assume that's the problem with our regeneration.I can take anyone and show them dozens and dozens of exclosures that have phenominal regeneration.The rainfall and soil are the same as what's outside the fences.The only differance is,deer have been removed from the equation.Hunters have to face the fact that we had way too many deer for way too long in many areas of Pa and nowwe have to pay the price with less deer.