Squirrels play an important role in the ecosystem and the wildlife food chain. Of many types of food they eat, they eat fruit bearing plants, trre fruit, and nuts. Because they are normally abundant in the wild and far ranging, their feces containing undigested seeds are dropped throughout the fields and woodlands. Much of the seed then becomes new growth and provides more food for many animals; both the new growth and what the plant bears when it matures.

Many of the nuts -especially white and red acorns, that the squirrels bury, are buried throughout the areas that the squirrels live in. The squirrels do not use all the buried acorns. By spring, many of the unused acorns begin to sprout into new growth of White and Red Oaks throughout the timber and new areas. Whitetail deer not only eat the acorn nut, they also eat much of the new growth. Additionally; I am not a turkey expert but I understand that wild turkeys love acorns.