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RMEF Strikes Major Conservation Agreement with Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society

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Read the original article on RMEF.org MISSOULA, Mont. — Help is on the way for elk, ruffed grouse, woodcock, turkey, whitetail deer and many other wildlife species across the Great Lakes and Appalachian States.  The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) entered into a three-year conservation agreement to maintain and enhance habitat within priority areas across Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin, while improving hunting opportunity. “This agreement allows two long-time, hunter-based conservation organizations to pool our combined energy and resources to carry out meaningful and measurable conservation work,” said...

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RGS & AWS Partners with Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust on Habitat Restoration Project in Massachusetts

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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust is a recipient of a Cornell Land Trust Grant for 2023. The Cornell Lab’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative awarded grants to 14 land trusts throughout the country to assist with management and restoration of private protected lands, integrate bird conservation into prioritization and planning, and develop partnerships within the birding community to amplify conservation efforts. Mount Grace’s work funded by this grant will focus on Guiney Memorial Forest, a 33-acre wildlife sanctuary in Royalston. This small sanctuary has various habitat types, including maturing white pine, hemlock, and hardwood forest as well as a diverse understory,...

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RGS & AWS Awarded $110,000 from New York Natural Resources Conservation Service Grant

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The New York Natural Resources Conservation Service awarded the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) Northeast conservation team a $110,000 Conservation Innovation Grant to implement critical forest habitat work on public and private land surrounding the Helderberg Bird Conservation Area in Albany and Schoharie Counties in New York.  The Helderberg Forest Resiliency Initiative will coordinate and promote habitat management work across public, private and conservation easement ownerships as well as produce new monitoring and mapping capacity to analyze forest age and diversity at a landscape scale. The project will include:  300 acres of forest habitat work – enhancing...

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RGS & AWS Society Signs $50,000 Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Stewardship Agreement

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Through this non-timber, short-form stewardship agreement, the U.S. Forest Service is providing RGS & AWS with Bipartisan Infrastructure funding of $50,000 to evaluate and assess no-bid timber sale payment units on the Great Divide Ranger District of the Chequamegon National Forest. RGS & AWS will add matching funds of $12, 585.  Using this funding, RGS & AWS will complete the assessment of Forest Service timber sales that have gone no-bid. RGS & AWS will do this with the help of to a consulting forestry company and develop an implementation plan to present to the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. That implementation plan will...

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The Flusher Formula

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Top training techniques to make you and your flushing dog a more effective team By: Nathan Ratchford When it comes to grouse dogs, pointers get the lion’s share of attention, but hunting behind a good flushing dog can be a highly effective way to hunt ruffed grouse. It can also be a disaster – an absolute, out-of-control disaster. This is especially the case if you have a high-powered dog that doesn’t care if you’re within gun range when he hits a hot scent trail. Fear not, grouse gunners. Here are some simple flushing dog training tips that you can work on this...

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Grouse Camp Revival

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The pursuit of inner peace and gray-phase ruffed grouse in Eastern Washington By: Brad Trumbo Late September in Washington’s Blue Mountains is magical. Golden wheat stubble infiltrates somber evergreen timber, like waves breaking on the beach. On the western slope, dryland rises high enough to squeeze rain from the heavens sufficient to sustain pines and firs. Bony desert canyons snake among mountaintop woodlands. This convergence of ecotones creates matchless and unpredictable ruffed grouse covers.  My setters, Finn and Yuba, hung their heads from the backseat windows as we climbed a forgotten two-track. It’d been a long year, and we were excited to cut...

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