Forests require active disturbance management to maintain the structural diversity necessary for the health of many species, including ruffed grouse and woodcock.

“If we're taking a hands-off approach to these systems, we are we are starving them of the things that they need, the things that the forest needs to provide the types of habitat and diversity, not just for rough grass and American woodcock, as much as I love those two species, but for a whole host o”