• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Plattsburgh
    • Student Work
    • SUNY Plattsburgh Center for Earth and Environmental Science Student Work
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Plattsburgh
    • Student Work
    • SUNY Plattsburgh Center for Earth and Environmental Science Student Work
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of SUNY Open Access RepositoryCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentAuthor ProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Campus Communities in SOAR

    Alfred State CollegeBrockportBroomeCantonDownstateDutchessEmpireFarmingdaleFinger LakesFredoniaMaritimeNew PaltzNiagaraOld WestburyOneontaOnondagaOptometryOswegoPlattsburghPurchase CollegePolytechnic InstituteSUNY Office of Workforce Development and Upward MobilitySUNY PressUpstate Medical

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Assessing the Quality of Ruffed Grouse Habitat in a Managed Early-Successional Mixed Hardwood Forest at Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area, Chazy, NY

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    fulltext.pdf
    Size:
    2.639Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    poster
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    0-Assessing_the_Quality_of_Ruf ...
    Size:
    595.5Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    full-text
    Download
    Average rating
     
       votes
    Cast your vote
    You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
    Star rating
     
    Your vote was cast
    Thank you for your feedback
    Author
    Ramsdell, Connor
    Keyword
    ruffed grouse
    wildlife management area
    lake alice
    habitat evaluation
    forest succession
    Date Published
    2017
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/870
    Abstract
    Ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus are valuable upland game birds that are found in early-successional upland forests consisting of trees such as aspen Populus spp. that form dense stands. Grouse utilize saplings found in this young forest habitat as cover from predation, while tree buds, catkins, and leaves constitute the majority of their dietary requirements. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation established a clear cut management site at Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area (LAWMA) in the early 1970s in order to improve ruffed grouse habitat, primarily for increased hunting opportunities. In the fall of 2016, I began to research this site in an attempt to determine the current quality of the habitat. I conducted a vegetation composition and density analysis in three out of the five stands using fixed circular plots. I conducted grouse flush count surveys over nine weeks, counting the number of grouse flushes I encountered every hour. Average vegetation data supports that the area holds adequate stem density for grouse protection (4,942 stems per hectare, as suggested by DeStefano et al. (2001)). The clear-cut is heavily dominated by American elm Ulmus americana, and not aspen, although aspen are present. Flush data from the 2016-2017 hunting season shows that the number of flushes per hour collected at the site were higher than the state average from the previous hunting season, and even topped the average for the surrounding Champlain Valley and Transition region (NYSDEC 2016b). This data suggests that a healthy grouse population and grouse habitat exists at the site.
    Description
    Student poster, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, SUNY Plattsburgh
    Collections
    SUNY Plattsburgh Center for Earth and Environmental Science Student Work

    entitlement

     

    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2025)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.