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I see what both of you guys are saying. The only mature mast trees on the property are cherry and beech. But, these are not where it was logged. Where it was logged, the biggest trees are still not producing mast. They range from saplings to pole timber size. There is not one oak anywhere on the property, even where it was never logged. But, I'm only basing this on my own knowledge, which traces back to the early 1980s. The property could have been cleared before that, and the only mast trees that made it to maturity were beech and cherry.

The areas that were cut in my hunting career sprouted up with blackberry bushes and striped maple first. Then beech brush moved in. Then it became a combo of beech, silver maple, black birch and hemlock. That's about what it is now.

My dad and I started planting oaks ourselves in 1994. We grew them from acorns in pots and then planted them about a year later (in cages of course). We stopped a couple years ago and got up to 450 trees. About 3 or 4 are now producing acorns - albeit in small batches.