ORIGINAL: Crazy Horse RVN
REPEAT:
"RSB" I intend to contact the land manager in WMU 3B for info on grouse projects on Game Lands #12 & #36 (Total of some 42,ooo acres) , but I'm curious as to what amount of acerage the parcels that have recieved this treatment on Game Lands in your sector have been? Do thay exceed 1000 acres, 2000 acres or what is the average size acerage?
I don’t have access to the amount specifically in grouse management blocks for Elk County though I am sure the local Land Management Officer does. Nor do I have the total amount established during the many years of creating grouse blocks in the County. I can tell you though that there is a lot of acreage that has been developed as grouse management on the game lands in my district.
I do have a listing of the amount of wildlife habitat work done in just the past year by the three man Food and Cover Crew here in Elk County. This is only including the habitat projects that I felt would be a benefit to grouse.
Project……………………………………⠀¦â€¦â€¦â€¦..amount planted of acres treated
Browse cut………………………………………†¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦..64 acres
Mountain ash release……………………………………⠀¦â€¦..3 acres
Daylight apple trees (cutting shade producing trees)………….454 trees
Daylight hawthorn…………………………………… ……….. 40 trees
Create new grouse blocks……………………………………†¦20 acres
Plant evergreen trees……………………………………… …...9700 trees
Plant deciduous trees……………………………………… …...5700 trees
Besides what has been created by the food and cover crew, on the game lands, we also have commercial timber cutting and various habitat projects on the National Forest and even the private land, some of which is done by their personnel and those same food and cover employees that work on the game lands.
There really is a lot of great wildlife habitat work done by the Game Commission , even though some don’t want to believe it.
Dick Bodenhorn