The Game & Fish are saying this is the year of the acorns , tells me we will have a wet/snow/cold winter possibly...
What Fish & Game said is the same as I was going to reply to this thread.
When I was growing up here in SoCal my parents had a weekend/vacation place in our local mountains and I learned that lots of pine cones on the trees in the spring/summer was a very accurate forecast of a heavy snow forecast for the following winter.
Mother Nature provides food for her critters. It's up to them to take advantage of the harvest.