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What do grouse eat? Judd (1905) has compiled a general cross-section, 

 while Allen (numerous papers), Gross (1928), and Bump (1930), have built 

 local lists for the northeastern States, but in the north central region we must still 

 guess. How long can grouse live on buds? At what seasons must they drink? 

 What is the relative weight of their predatory enemies? How polygamous are 



SASO/VS ON RUFFED 



LEGEND 



OPM IN SOME COUNTIES 

 (FIGURES INDICATE DAILY BAG LIMIT) 





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they? What is the composition of the ideal range? Just how does lumbering, 

 grazing, and fire affect it? All these questions remain largely or totally un- 

 answered. The conservation movement is barely even beginning to admit it does 

 not know, and still devotes 90 per cent of its energies to the comparatively trivial 

 question of how to divide up the accidental crops which nature produces in spite 

 of our ineptitude. 



