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2016 RGS GROUSE CAMP TOUR – North Carolina & Georgia

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North Carolina/Georgia

RGS chapters are striving to ensure national forests are properly managed in the Southern Appalachian Region to preserve our grouse hunting traditions for future generations.

The famed conservationist Aldo Leopold once said, “We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.” The word “strive”, being the operative, is exactly what RGS chapter volunteers are doing in North Carolina and Georgia to ensure our public lands, namely national forests, are being properly managed for wildlife.

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RGS and AWS Receive $230,000 MN CPL Grant

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11/15/16

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RGS PRESS RELEASE

Ruffed Grouse Society

451 McCormick Rd

Coraopolis PA  15108

412-262-4044

www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

November 15, 2016

For Immediate Release

The 2017 Minnesota Ruffed Grouse and Woodcock Habitat Enhancement project receives $230,000.00 in funding from Minnesota DNR Conservation Partners Legacy Grant.

Coraopolis, PA – The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS)/American Woodcock Society (AWS) has received a $230,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Partners Legacy (CPL) program.  This grant will allow RGS/AWS to create over 1,000 acres of critically important brushland habitat on state lands throughout Minnesota including aspen regeneration on the Whitewater Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in the southeastern part of Minnesota and forest management on Carlos Avery WMA in the north metro region of Minnesota. These secured CPL funds will allow for a significant increase in the amount of acres that can be treated with additional funding provided by the Ruffed Grouse Society and partners such as the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association.

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2016 GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Virginia/Tennessee

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Virginia/Tennessee

Grouse/woodcock hunters are speaking for the wildlife that cannot speak for themselves – influencing forest management on public lands.

Only partially down the Tennessee mountain trail, Parker Street, of the Appalachian Highlands RGS Chapter, pointed to some Rhododendron sandwiched between clear old growth and a more recently managed mountainside. “Right here . . . there ought to be a bird in here, boys,” he urged.

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2016 RGS GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Monterey, Virginia

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RGS 2016 GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Monterey, Virginia

The Birthplace of the Ruffed Grouse Society

Walking down the short main street of Monterey, Virginia, a small mountain town in the northwestern part of the state, it would be difficult to assume that North America’s leading forest wildlife conservation organization was started there way back in 1961, but it was . . . welcome to the birthplace of the Ruffed Grouse Society.

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2016 RGS GROUSE CAMP TOUR – West Virginia

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2016 RGS GROUSE CAMP TOUR – West Virginia

The Habitat and History of the Canaan Valley

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Grouse camp mystifies the overall grouse and woodcock hunting experience . . . sitting next to a fire, telling stories of misses and great days afield, belly laughing at your buddies, all while petting a bird dog . . . these are all things we cherish and must preserve for future generations of grouse and woodcock hunters.

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