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RGS & AWS Awarded $180,000 to Launch New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative 

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The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation’s New England Forests & Rivers Fund awarded the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) Northeast conservation team $180,000 to implement critical forest habitat work throughout the region. Known as the New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative, the project will advance landscape-level forest habitat projects aimed at increasing habitat diversity across the St. Lawrence Valley of New York and the Champlain Valley of Vermont. The project will include: 2 large-scale dynamic forest restoration blocks in NY and VT with 4,000 acres under management 1,000 acres under improved forest management on surrounding private...

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Funding Opportunity for Northeast Wisconsin Landowners – Joint Chiefs Project

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by Stefan Nelson – RGS & AWS Forest Wildlife Specialist Private forest landowners within the Northeastern portion of Wisconsin now have an additional funding opportunity available under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to address conservation concerns. This additional EQIP fund pool is available to landowners within Oneida, Forest, Florence, Marinette, Oconto, Langlade and Shawano counties. Landowners still need to follow all normal eligibility and application procedures under EQIP for this project. Farm Bill grants provide funding for landowners to carry out the work or hire a contractor to do so. The chief of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Natural Resources...

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RGS & AWS Secures Nearly $105,000 Habitat-Improvement Grant in Michigan

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The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) recently secured $93,500 from the Michigan Wildlife Habitat Grant Program with $5,000 of matching donation from the Roger Moore Chapter of RGS and $6,000 from Jim Juries, totaling $104,500. The money will be put towards the ongoing Big Wild Habitat Improvement Project on the Pigeon River Country State Forest (PRCSF) in Michigan. The project, a continuation in a long-standing partnership between RGS & AWS and the PRCSF, will directly impact 160 acres of habitat on the 109,000-acre property – the largest block of undeveloped land in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. “We...

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Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society’s Magazine Covers Wins 2023 Pinnacle and APEX Awards

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The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) received the Professional Outdoor Media Association’s (POMA) 2023 Pinnacle Award in the “Magazine Complete – Print” category, presented during the 2023 POMA conference in June 2023 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The Pinnacle Awards, sponsored by Toyota, honor journalists for remarkable achievement in traditional outdoor sports-focused communications, including magazine publication, writing, photography/illustration/art, broadcasting and content focused on wildlife conservation. The Covers magazine issue that took home the first-place award was Spring 2022, which included articles on the RGS & AWS model of working forests, choosing the best shotgun, hunting dog tune-up...

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Investing in the Bird Dog Bank Account – A primer on pet insurance

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by Michael L. Neiduski If you have a bird dog, you know the feeling: that queasy, questioning feeling that comes the moment it’s time to load up and go to the vet. Sometimes it’s obvious – the flap of skin from barbed wire or a mouthful of quills staring you in the face as they lope back to you. Other times, it’s just in your gut – the loss of appetite, low drive or not wanting to get out of the box on a hunt, when in normal moments they’re ready to breathe fire like a “Game of Thrones” dragon to...

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Know Your Cover – Wild Grapes

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by Charlie Mize | RGS & AWS Public Lands Wildlife Forester – SW Virginia Wild grapes (Vitis spp.) are among the sweetest snacks available to ruffed grouse, who consume them in large quantities when they ripen in late summer and early fall. Some longtime Southern Appalachian grouse hunters recall years past when a successful hunt could be had solely by poking around grape thickets, even without the aid of a dog. These natural arbors harbor hordes of wildlife within their dense, food-rich cover, and they’re especially important when the surrounding forest is in a mature, closed-canopy condition. Most hunters already know how...

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