In 2019, RGS/AWS Forest Conservation Director Jon Steigerwaldt sat on the selection committee for the Cherish Wisconsin Outdoors Fund (a habitat fund made possible by Wisconsin hunters who volunteer to […]
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Falcon Springs Wildlife Area Land Acquisition (Iowa)
RGS is continuing to support public land acquisitions in Iowa. Iowa is commonly ranked towards the bottom of all states in terms of acres of public land open to hunting. […]
Woodcock habitat management at Mt Nebo Wildlife Management Area (Maryland)
The following description is from RGS’ project partner Rick Latshaw at the MD DNR: Project Description: Project Justification. This project is designed to improve alder habitat conditions for American woodcock […]
Mineland reforestation at Jennings Randolph Lake (Army Corps of Engineers facility Maryland)
Decade-long, landscape-scale collaboration at Jennings Randolph Lake (JRL), a US Army Corps of Engineers project on the North Branch of the Potomac River (MD and WV). Since 2013, RGS and […]
Alder planting at Prospertown Lake (New Jersey)
[Description from Jersey Shore AWS president Mark Dreyfus; to prevent spot burn, map icon is located on Prospertown Lake WMA generally and not at project location] In the Fall of […]
RGS Young Forest Partnership at Moraine State Park (Pennsylvania)
[Jeff Herrick, Habitat Management Biologist Contractor with the Wildlife Management Institute submitted the following blog for RGS’ Bellwether newsletter] Pennsylvania State Parks Create Forest Habitat Diversity to Benefit Young Forest […]
Forest management and habitat work on the Loyalsock State Forest (Pennsylvania)
In 2019, as part of a collaboration with the PA DCNR, RGS helped fund herbicide treatment as part of a forest management and habitat project on 26 acres of the […]
Fire line construction at Buchanan State Forest (Pennsylvania)
In 2019, RGS paid for the construction of 5 miles of fire lines at Buchanan State Forest, which will enable PA’s Bureau of Forestry to re-introduce prescribed fire and diversity […]
Collaborative habitat project at Erie National Wildlife Refuge (Pennsylvania)
Habitat Restoration (submitted by wildlife biologist and project coordinator Jeff Herrick; a version of this description was published in Covers magazine) In 2011, The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) teamed up […]
Habitat management on SGL 42 (Pennsylvania)
In close collaboration with the PA Game Commission (PGC), RGS supported habitat management planning and implementation on SGL 42 with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2018 […]
