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MANAGING GROUSE AREAS 



of the conditions described above, to maintain grouse cover. 



On the farm lands, to help hold back the forest and maintain about it lliat fringe of over- 

 grown fields so important to grouse, one might well encourage the following activities: 



1. Those programs which help the farmer to maintain his economic positions. Included in 

 these are those of the Soil Conservation Districts, the State Forest Practice Act. the farm 

 extension program of the State College of Agriculture and the interest in rural electri- 

 fication. 



2. Dairying and the moderate pasturing of sheep as an indirect means of maintaining the 

 overgrown pasture. 





TVPICAI, ABANDONED UPLAND 



On the abandoned uplands, to maintain an indispensable diversity of woodland cover, a more 

 active interest must be developed in projects such as: — 



1. The wide acceptance of forest standards as set U]) under the State Forest Practice Act. 



2. The selective cutting of woodlots. 



3. More local wood-using industries. 



4. The fencing out of catllc from woodlots. 



5. So managing woodlands as to stimulate coniferous reproduction in predominaMtly hard- 

 wood stands. 



6. The encouragement of a wide band of woods' edges about woodlands. 



7. A program of reforestation of idle lands ])roviding for: — 



(a) The |il;iiilln;: of eonifers in small blocks. 



(b) Variety in the s|)cei<-s to be planted. 



(c) The eventual develo|imi-nl of stands composed of hardwoods as well as soft- 

 woods. 



(d) The lca\ing of wiilc borders between blocks and of frequent openings within 



