Make adjustments to increase or stabilize benefits and reduce costs. Management will tend to make this number increase and hold it there over time. Like feedback, use feedforward. Lasting Forests offers a program for owners of small tracts to join together in a cooperative program of ruffed-grouse management. Management is generally infeasible for tracts of less than 50 acres, but when adjacent landowners develop cooperative arrangements, great success is possible.
General recommendations are about as meaningful for grouse as they are for human health problems.
In general they are no good. Every tract, like very person, is unique. Wildlife managers of Lasting Forests are experts in ruffed grouse management and can provide unique, specific prescriptions for managing the bird resource. Jr. Last revision January 17, 2000.