'Healthy woods, healthy herd". If only it worked out that way. There was no bumper crop of acorns there last year and they were rotting on the ground. The "Quality" of the deer, or what ever you rack hunters call it, has really gone down hill since the herd reduction started. Let me give you my theory. A couple years ago, it was not uncommon to kill doe up there that weighed 120 to 150 pounds. The last couple years a big doe is about 80 pounds. You let old, demented looking spike and 3 pointers walk and then you are breeding the runts and "Scrap". It takes two to tango. Gary Alt policy was "Kill the big doe". In other words, get rid of the good genes the big doe were carrying. I remember when the Game Commission stance was "Shoot the little ones, they will starve over winter anyway." What next? You want a healthy forest? I still take bags of acorns and beech nuts from my back yard and spread them around where there are none when I am hiking or hunting. Some are bound to roll into rocks and be safe from the squirrels.