oak trees

[rachunter]

had this posted in a different section thought i'd try here,

i've been hunting and scouting around the ferris/silver lake area for 4 years now and have yet to see any oaks are they void in this area?

i did find a few beechnut trees even found one on my land[10 acres]

i'm thinking of planting a few chestnuts next spring

[nybuckboy]

We don't seem to have any or very few oaks in and around the 7M. I was just in the Woodstock, Hudson Valley area this past weekend and they have a lot of oak trees.

[ATbuckhunter]

Probably depends where you are. Where I hunt its loaded with acorns so if its a bumper year the deer movement is very low, but on the low years it can be easy to get one. 

[growalot]

Depends on past logging and types that were in the areas when heavy logging was done...remember NY now has a relatively young forest. Major cutting was done way back when..oak beams held everything up.

[rachunter]

14 hours ago, growalot said:

Depends on past logging and types that were in the areas when heavy logging was done...remember NY now has a relatively young forest. Major cutting was done way back when..oak beams held everything up.

that explains a lot about my property it was owned by a saw mill,but i haven't seen any on the state land ether.

[growalot]

Town and county histories...usually you can find on line nowadays...document the activity in the 1800 century and up. Like around us...they had a huge saw mill and would float logs down Hemlock lake......town and county historical societies do a great job of taking you back to the beginnings. More people should check them out...