[PCA] NEWS: Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop

[Olivia Kwong]

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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