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All eyes on the Appalachian grouse

By Rob Hilliard
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

It's amazing what sometimes comes from a conversation between hunters. In this case, what started as a few guys talking about why there weren't more grouse in their neck of the woods ended up as perhaps the single largest scientific wildlife study in the history of North America — a study that may have changed the future of ruffed grouse management in the Appalachian region. When the final report of the Appalachian Grouse Cooperative Research Project came out last summer, it concluded near ...

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