Doug says: "Other species like grouse need an early succession forest and a mid level understory."
But that was clearly never meant to be in mature forest.
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By the way,the exclosure that keep the deer from eating all of the new regeneration make nice grouse habitat."
So what of it? We can fence in or manipulate a piece of land to be anything we'd want it to be. IF we cut the trees inside that fence Plowed planted seeds and threw down lime, we could plant tomatoes in there... Does that mean that should be the conditions of our entire pa forest? It would be just as unnatural growing species that otherwise couldnt and wouldnt be growing there.