Thanks for the Comments guys.. I've been discussin this with other people that hunt a few counties over from me and they have noticed very FEW acorns, just a few counties over....but as I said here they are plentiful....The part that worries me is the scientists and other "officials" in these articles are shrugging their shoulders as to why its happening....

If it was a simple matter of "well, there was a bumper crop last year, and the trees are still exhausted and not producing this year"...well that would have happened before then, yes?

I dunno maybe if we can look at the weather pattern that these places that got hit with this and see if they had maybe abnormal temps/rain over the course of the summer, and maybe find the common link....if it were that simple I'm sure the scientists would have figured it out by now.

When does the actual acorn begin to form on the tree, anyone know?