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Episode 138: Ruffed Grouse Habitat Basics
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- Under the Canopy
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- Mar 30, 2026
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- 2572
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Summary
A grouse doesn’t need a “perfect wilderness” to thrive. It needs the right kind of forest, at the right stage, with the right cover in the right places. From the Toronto Sportsman Show, we sit down with Derek from the Rough Grouse Society of Canada to talk about what ruffed grouse habitat really is, why early successional forest is disappearing in parts of Ontario, and how practical habitat restoration can bring it back on public land. We get into the on-the-ground details that hunters, bird...