Management of the Ruffed Grouse 



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Shrubs 6- Vines: 

 Bittersweet 

 Silky dogwood 



WeU-drained Moderate 



Well-drained to moist Low 



Flowering dogwood Dry to well-drained Moderate 



Graystem dogwood 



Hazelnut 



Hawthorn 



Apple and crabapple 

 Bayberry 

 Virginia creeper 



Bear oak 



Dwarf sumac 



Staghom sumac 

 Swamp rose 



Movmtain ash 



Nannyberry 



Blackhaw 



Highbush cranberry 



Fox grape 



Riverbank grape 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 

 Dry to well-drained 

 Well-drained 



Well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 

 Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



Dry to well-drained 



WeU-drained to moist 



Dry to well-drained 



Well-drained to moist 



Low 



Moderate 



Low 



Moderate 



Low 



Moderate 



Low 



Low 



Low 

 Low 



Moderate 



Moderate 



Moderate 



Moderate 



Moderate 



Moderate 



Entire region 



All except northern 



New England 

 Mass. to central New 

 York and south- 

 ward 

 All except Maine and 



coastal plain 

 All except northern 



New England 

 All except coastal 



plain 

 Entire region 

 Entire region 

 Mass. to central N. Y. 



and southward 

 Mass. to central N. Y. 



and southward 

 All except northern 



New England 

 Entire region 

 All except northern 



Maine 

 All except coastal 



plain 

 AU except coastal 



plain 

 Mass. to central N. Y. 



and southward 

 All except coastal 



plain 

 All except coastal 



plain 

 All except coastal 

 plain 



seems to be to keep them in woodland, hence the former croplands 

 and pastures present a problem in re vegetation. 



The same condition of unproductiveness from overuse is found 

 on parts of many farms that are, in their entirety, sound economic 

 imits. Whole fields or portions of fields that were inherently un- 

 suited to farming or that have been worn out by farming should 

 be retired to woody vegetation. 



In both these cases the problems and principles of revegetation 

 are essentially similar. We will assume for the purposes of this dis- 

 cussion that the area is in grouse range and that grouse produc- 



