12/15/08

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Absence of hunting counters direction of President’s Executive Order 13443

PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

December 15, 2008

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, PA – The Ruffed Grouse Society is disappointed that enhancing game wildlife habitats, populations and hunting opportunity is entirely absent from the goals listed to enhance wildlife-oriented recreation presented in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Draft Revised Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.

[Read more…] about RGS unhappy with Kenai NWR Plan

11/28/08

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PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis PA  15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

November 28, 2008

For Immediate Release

The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the SportDOG Brand Conservation Fund to further the Cold Mountain Game Lands Murray Cove enhancement project in Haywood County, NC.

In announcing the grant, SportDOG Brand Conservation Fund Coordinator Gary Williams said, “SportDOG Brand annually supports the conservation efforts of sportsmen and conservation organizations such as yours throughout North America and we are proud to partner with you by supporting your current project.”

[Read more…] about RGS receives $5,000 grant from SportDOG Brand Conservation Fund

05/19/08

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PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis PA  15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

May 19, 2008

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania — The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) was one of 21 recipients nationwide to receive the Department of the Interior’s Cooperative Conservation Award for its part in the Northern Forest Woodcock Initiative.

The Northern Forest Woodcock Initiative (NFWI) was created to increase early successional habitats at a landscape level for the benefit of woodcock and other wildlife species, both hunted and non-hunted.

[Read more…] about RGS recognized for its efforts in the Northern Forest Woodcock Initiative

03/11/08

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PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

March 11, 2008

For Immediate Release
 

Coraopolis, PA – The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) gets plenty of attention for advocating cutting big trees to make small ones, but few realize that RGS volunteers and its partners annually plant thousands of trees.

This spring and fall, as part of the Woodcock Habitat Initiative on State Lands (PA WHISL), RGS will partner with Mackin Engineering Company of Pittsburgh, PA and the PA Game Commission to plant 30,000 aspen, alder, hawthorn and dogwood seedlings, transforming an open, agricultural field into a woodcock wonderland on State Game Lands 39 in Venango County, PA.

[Read more…] about Woodcock Project Plants 30,000 Seedlings

10/05/07

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PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Rd

Coraopolis PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

October 5, 2007

For Immediate Release 

Multi-year plan includes restoration, regeneration and designation of new habitat management area

Coraopolis, PA — Wildlife species on the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will be the beneficiary of a renewed partnership between the Ruffed Grouse Society, and the US Forest Service.

A recently signed “Collection Agreement” between the two organizations targets projects designed to benefit wildlife species dependent upon plants found in young forests that provide food and cover for wildlife.  Both partners will provide funds and staff time to implement projects over a five year period across the Hiawatha National Forest.

[Read more…] about RGS Partners with Hiawatha National Forest

07/30/07

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Recent Grant and Partnerships Add to Horsepower

PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

July 30, 2007

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, PA – With the acquisition of some unique tree-harvesting machinery, the Ruffed Grouse Society has teamed up with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and others to make a new generation of these versatile machines available to public and private landowners who want to enhance cover for grouse, woodcock and other wildlife.

Inspired by the FWS Partners for Wildlife program and what it was doing with medium sized machines in Pennsylvania, the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) wanted (in 2004) to purchase one of their own, and thanks to a grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, was able to do so.

[Read more…] about Versatile Machines Benefit Grouse, Woodcock, other Wildlife

03/26/07

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PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

March 26, 2007

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, PA — The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) has named Don Mallicoat to its brood of regional directors. A retired Army officer, Mallicoat, 53, will oversee fundraising operations in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Kentucky — the five states that make up the RGS Southern Appalachian Region.

[Read more…] about RGS Recruits Retired Army Officer for Southern Appalachian Region

11/30/06

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Conservation organization to appear as amicus curiae

PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

November 30, 2006

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, PA — In what can be viewed as the first step in the struggle to provide better ruffed grouse and woodcock habitat in the Superior National Forest, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, recently granted the Ruffed Grouse Society’s (RGS) request to appear as amicus curiae in support of the US Forest Service and US Department of Agriculture to defend against litigation against the Forest Service’s “Forest Plan”.

[Read more…] about RGS sides with US Forest Service in Lawsuit