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Dan the Man

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Written by: Gary HopkinsonDunstable, MA Featured image provide by Art Fair entry “Late Season Hunt” courtesy of Doug Phillips I’ve been Grouse hunting since 1963 and have tons and tons of stories about Grouse to tell, but this story will remain the deepest in my heart. Around 1990 I met a man named Dan Keating from N. Chelmsford, MA. He brought me to Vermont’s Great Northeast Kingdom and I went out Grouse hunting. I shot two Grouse that first day on his property. Our seasonal Grouse hunting continued for the last thirty-one years. He introduced me to the Stony Brook Fish & Game Club in Westford,...

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RGS & AWS Voice: Spring 2020 Covers Magazine (Vol 32, Issue 1)

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by Brent A. Rudolph, Ph.D. – RGS & AWS Chief Conservation and Legislative Officer Printed in Covers Spring 2020 FROM PRINCIPLES TO POLICY TO PRACTICE: STEWARDSHIP OF OUR NATIONAL FORESTS Increasing the Scope and Scale of Critical Forest Treatments On August 16, 2018, the USDA Forest Service published a report, Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-Based Investment Strategy, and announced the implementation of a new strategy for improving forest conditions by increasing “the scope and scale of critical forest treatments.” In reality, the tools and strategies composing Shared Stewardship represented the realization of opportunities supported through an investment of considerable time and effort...

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Homecoming Week for Sporting Classics With Chris Dorsey

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Chris Dorsey returns to Wisconsin to hunt ruffed grouse and woodcock with Ruffed Grouse Society July 15, 2021 (Castle Rock, Colorado) — Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – features host Chris Dorsey returning to his home state of Wisconsin for a classic grouse and woodcock hunt. Joining him are David Moore and Ruffed Grouse Society CEO Dr. Ben Jones. The timing is fortuitous as the birds are near the peak of their 10-year cycle, providing plenty of mixed bag opportunities in...

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Featured Habitat in Michigan: Pigeon River Country State Forest

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RGS & AWS members work on habitat project in Michigan

Roger Moore RGS & AWS Chapter forged ahead with a key habitat project despite 2020 challenges and delays By Glen Blackwood, Eastern Great Lakes Director of Regional Development Originally published in Spring 2021 issue of Covers Magazine. “Conservation is NOT canceled” has been the overriding mantra of RGS & AWS, our chapters and membership during the past year. While the pandemic’s impacts caused fundraising and other chapter events to be postponed, our work on young successional forest management and wildlife habitat creation continued in 2020. Through everything, RGS & AWS members and staff forged ahead, ensuring that conservation remained a priority. One such...

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Grouse are dangerously close to disappearing in the Southern Appalachians, but we can do something about it.

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Looking out over the Southern Appalachian landscape from the Blue Ridge Parkway, one sees a beautiful landscape of rolling hills and vibrant green forests as far as the eye can see. The lush, closed canopy forests that dominate the region’s public lands are no doubt aesthetically beautiful, but they lack diverse forest habitat that many forest wildlife depend upon. In December 2020, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ (AFWA) Eastern Grouse Working Group released a report highlighting that ruffed grouse populations have declined by 71% since 1989 in the Southern Appalachians. The primary reason for this is a lack of...

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