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RGS & AWS Continues to Grow Impact in the Great Lakes Region

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by Jon Steigerwaldt, RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes and Upper Midwest RGS & AWS continues to grow our impact in the Great Lakes region, a critical area for our mission-related work that spans seven states – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. We’re pleased to announce that our rapid rate of growth and escalating work necessitates the addition of new senior staff leadership. We are dividing the Great Lakes Forest Conservation Region into eastern and western divisions, adding a senior-level forest conservation director position to continue to build out our growth in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. This...

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Great Lakes Region Update

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by Jon Steigerwaldt – Forest Conservation Director | Great Lakes Region Staff Expansions New positions at RGS & AWS are driven by our strategic growth in conservation delivery and in secured grants and funding agreements. Prior to 2020, the Great Lakes Team was managing less than $500,000 in habitat projects. In less than five years, this has grown to more than $7.25 million in grants and agreements with a variety of funding partners, including our Region 9 Stewardship Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service and 11 agreements with six national forests. In 2023 alone, our Wisconsin Private Lands Team assisted landowners in...

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Featured Habitat Project – Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area: Maximizing Impacts and Paying Dividends

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by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes & Upper Midwest With funding from the Uihlein Foundation, RGS & AWS worked with the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (UWSP) in the summer of 2019 to create a Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area at their Treehaven facility (a 1,300-acre education, demonstration and research facility outside Tomahawk, Wisconsin). Treehaven is a logical location for a demonstration area, as it functions as the summer field station for the College of Natural Resources, where every year, approximately 240 natural resources college students complete...

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Featured Habitat Project – Seeking New Partnerships to Increase Impacts

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by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Regional Biologist Published in Covers Winter 2020 Nestled into the bedrock of the Grand Rapids, Minnesota, community for almost 120 years is a symbol of habitat creation apparent to any ruffed grouse hunter, both visiting or resident. As an inlet for raw wood from public and private land ownerships, UPM Blandin Paper Company helps create young forest wildlife habitat in the heart of the upper Great Lakes grouse range. Managing approximately 188,000 acres (most in Itasca County), Blandin was untapped potential to partner with and create hunting opportunities. When Blandin Forester and RGS member Adam...

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Public Input Opportunity | Minnesota’s Forest Management Guidelines

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Act now to help shape the future of Minnesota’s Forests

Link to Survey

The Minnesota Forest Resources Council’s (MFRC) Site-Level Committee on Minnesota’s Forest Management Guidelines (FMGs) is seeking public input on the development of comprehensive forest management guidelines.  The guidelines are a core mandate of the Minnesota’s Sustainable Forest Resources Act.

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RGS Supports Ruffed Grouse Symposium in Wisconsin Rapids – RGS

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Wood Yard – Wisconsin Rapids Paper Mill

Upper Great Lakes Ruffed Grouse Symposium 

On February 25, 2020, Wisconsin hosted an Upper Midwest Ruffed Grouse Symposium. This event was geared towards professional wildlife biologists, foresters, and researchers managing ruffed grouse in the Upper Midwest.

In total, 120 professionals from eight different states attended the symposium. The day was well rounded with talks on current research, management efforts, and planning. Discussions also focused on learning about factors impacting ruffed grouse such as disease, policy, forest product market trends and climate.

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