Seems strange when our grouse began declining in the early 1990s, the turkey population began increasing.
The several locations where I hunted over the years held good numbers of grouse but in the early 1990s every place I used to find grouse, the entire hillsides were raked clean by turkeys.
Turkeys in our state are a cash crop for ODNR. Grouse is not a cash crop therefore our ODNR does not care about restoration. The stocking of pheasants is slow changing/reducing- not a cash crop
Yes all the predators have increased, but we are not allowed to legally remove some/many of the species -especially avian
until that changes our game birds will continue to be in trouble
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