Healthy acorns do not rot by spring.They sprout.If you find a rotten acorn in the spring,it most likely wasn't edible in the fall and that goes for both red and white acorns.The whole state is not the same terrain.The forest composition can change in a relatively short distance and the carrying capacity will change right along with it.Only about 40% of Pa's land mass is oak/hickory so the remaining 60% will have no acorns anyway.If there's little pressure and the deer herd isn't growing,you have a habitat issue,plain and simple.Adding more deer to poor habitat is the dumbest thing you can do.

The decrease in allocations and season length was against the biologists and foresters recommendations.It was done purely for political reasons by the BOC.