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ing areas; ami for restocking, if needed, must also be provided. 



Scattered throughout the management plan, such details are likely to escape notice. It is 

 helpful, therefore, if they are brought together perhaps as an "operational schedule" at the 

 end of this section. 



Regulation of the Harvest 



It is suggested that hunting regulations be detailed in a separate section. Within the frame- 

 work of applicable state game laws, it is often desirable to add special regulations control- 

 ling hunting or other uses to which the area may be put. 



If the best possible shooting is to be had, some method of securing an annual estimate of 

 populations of game, buffer and predatory species must be worked out.* Likewise it is nec- 

 essary to set up a system for determining the proportions that may safely be harvested.'^ Pro- 

 vision for setting up and enforcing open seasons, bag limits and any special hunting restric- 

 tions must be made with sufficient flexibility to allow a quick change, even in the midst of 

 the hunting season, if occasion demands. 



Coordination with Other Uses 



If the area is being managed to serve other objectives as well as the production of grouse, 

 special surveys may be necessary to provide a basis for working such activities into the man- 

 agement plans. The production of forest products, of recreational opportunities, the control 

 of soil erosion and the lessening of flood damage are some of the likely subsidiary uses to 

 be considered. 



Protection and Other Special Problems 



Protection from unwanted fire and trespassers, as well as from occasionally serious insect 

 or disease outbreaks, may need to be considered. 



Here also is the place to outline plans for restocking coverts from which grouse have dis- 

 appeared because of a combination of conditions, at some past time unfavorable, but subse- 

 quently improved to a point where the bird now should be able to maintain itself, once re- 

 introduced. 



Appendix 



In building a management plan there are always a number of small but iniporlarU details 

 such as forms to be used, lists of equipment and supplies needed, methods and techniques to 

 be employed and miscellaneous data often of more or less general application. To avoid the 

 confusion incident upon including these in the main part of the management plan, it is better 

 to place them in an appendix. 



Individual situations will suggest other considerations and interests to be included. Though 

 the broad divisions of a management plan can be sketched with some assurance of applica- 

 bility, many of the details to be considered must grow out of a personal knowledge of the 

 conditions inherent in the individual working unit. After all, grouse production is largely 

 a problem of skillful direction of environmental forces, the interplay of which varies with 

 each individual locality. 



* See suggestions on p. 708. 

 A Discussed oD p. 676. 



