[PCA] NEWS: Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Dec 1 09:10:21 CST 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112902045.html
Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 30, 2008; Page A01
The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field
botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None.
No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up
with nothing. Nothing crunched underfoot. Nothing hit him on the head.
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