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Featured Habitat Project – A Conservation Partnership Improving Ohio’s Last Intact Marshland

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Printed in Covers Summer 2020 Many of us at the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society often speak about the opportunities that diverse partnerships hold, knowing that many of our fellow conservation organizations share very similar missions and overall objectives when it comes to healthy forests and the diverse wildlife that benefits from them. The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Woodcock Society is leading the charge in diversifying these partnerships and unifying conservation organizations for the common good. This chapter recently began a multi-phase project at Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area, located 35 miles north of Akron in northeastern Ohio...

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Preserving History – Woodcock Rillettes

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by Krissie Mason Covers magazine – Summer 2019 There’s something disturbing and illuminating about a modern loaf of bread that sits on the counter for a month and doesn’t sprout the tiniest spot of green fuzz. In contrast, my rustic, home-made yeasted boule will become a perm-headed Bob Ross Chia Pet if not consumed within a few days. As food tends to be paramount to our survival, it’s no wonder we developed a preoccupation with the preservative technologies of the times to avoid spoilage. Centuries before benzoates, sulphites, nitrites and sorbates, comestibles from fall hunts and domestic harvests like Pyrenean chamois, Black Forest...

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This Too Shall Pass – Things my Hunting Dogs Ate and Other Light Off-Season Reading.

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By Keith Schopp Content warning: This post includes detailed descriptions of foreign object removal. I was washing the truck while the five dogs played in our fenced yard, glancing over occasionally to ensure all was in order. That’s when I noticed Stella, my dominant one-year-old German shorthaired pointer, chewing on the collar of Emma, my three-year-old Labrador retriever. My first reaction was that it was kind of cute. I decided to break it up, and upon closer inspection, Stella was chewing on Emma’s flea and tick collar! In fact, she clearly had chewed off a good chunk. I called the other dogs...

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Don’t Let the Feet Be Your Defeat

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Foot care can save your season by Lisa Price Covers magazine – Summer 2019 I tried again to persuade my friend Chuck: “All I need you to do is hook the suburban up to the trailer,” I said. “And if you could go to the store and get me some ice, I’ll be good to go.” I had some dogs in training and was entered in an AKC event the next day – four hours away. But he was already shaking his head. “No,” he said. “You need to go to the doctor.” During some dog training that morning, I had taken a misstep into...

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Wisconsin members: Your voice is needed!

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The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program in Wisconsin needs to be renewed and fully funded Ruffed Grouse by Timothy C. Flanigan Wisconsin’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program provides valuable funding to conserve wildlife habitat and natural areas, expand opportunities for outdoor recreation, and protect water quality and fisheries. Over the past three decades, the Knowles-Nelson program has invested more than $825 million in nearly 7,000 projects across the state. Though diverse forms of outdoor recreation are supported by these projects that involve purchasing lands or easements and sustaining infrastructure, a program review  found 94% of lands purchased with Knowles-Nelson grants since 2007 are open to hunting....

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Featured Member: Perry Seitzinger, Indiana Chapter of RGS & AWS

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The future of our forest wildlife depends on dedicated conservationists and chapter leaders like Perry “If grouse hunters and foresters aren’t ever-vigilant in advocating for active science-based forest management, it can very quickly have dire consequences on woodland wildlife like the near extirpation of the ruffed grouse in Indiana.” – Perry Seitzinger The RGS & AWS family of volunteers represent a diverse group of individuals that at the core, deeply care for young forest habitat and the wildlife that benefits from these woodlands. Today, we’re recognizing Perry Seitzinger as a featured member of that work. [Read more…] about Featured Member: Perry...

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