That’s you Bill. Did you bother to open the link to the Ruffed Grouse Society and the explanation of logging on habitat? Do you realize that unlogged habitat eventually becomes a monoculture of mature forrest, that eventually becomes a clear cut of a different form, destroyed by fire? Do you grasp that a monoculture is almost completely devoid of wildlife? Do you grasp that almost all wildlife does better under managed conditions in a forrest that produces a checkerboard pattern of older growth, newer growth and clear cutting that provides openings in the forrest?
I watched a large area I hunted as a teenager and young adult go from bunches of covers that supported 30+ flushes an hour between grouse and woodcock to a virtual desert that's luck to support two blue jays and one retarded squirrel per acre because it was allowed to go from fantastic successional forest to mature forest that looks nice on a postcard but supports little life.
A fire would be the best thing for it at this point.
