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Action Alert: Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania RGS & AWS members and friends, Increasing management and habitat improvement on the Allegheny National Forest is a key goal of ours in PA. To that end, RGS just submitted comments on a proposed project on the ANF, called Madlick. Please take a few minutes and submit comments too. We’ve added a template below with key habitat data you can use or copy into your own message. It always helps to personalize your comments and make it clear why management and habitat matters to you personally.   SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS HERE Thanks, Ben LarsonMid-Atlantic Forest Conservation Director Jake TomlinsonForest Conservation Coordinator Dear Rob Fallon,  Thank you for the...

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Action Alert: West Virginia

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Speak up on HB2908 The West Virginia Division of Forestry (WV DOF) wants to increase habitat-oriented management on state forests, but due to lack of funding, the WV DOF has 40 vacant forester positions.   A bill in the West Virginia legislature would increase the WV DOF’s funding and enable them to do more management, but it hasn’t moved out of committee. With a quick email or phone call, RGS members in West Virginia can ensure the bill moves out of committee and is heard in the House and Senate. Please take a few minutes to find your representative and then call or email them. First,...

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Action Alert: Keep Forestry Alive in Massachusetts

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Photo credit: BILL GREENE/GLOBE STAFF FILE

Photo Credit: BILL GREENE/GLOBE STAFF FILE The Boston Globe recently published an Argument article asking readers if they would support a moratorium on commercial harvesting of state forest land. As wildlife advocates, most of us know that creating a mixed-age mosaic is the foundation of good habitat. Moratoriums like this, which are an all-or-nothing approach, are counterproductive to progress. Wildlife habitat is up against the ropes currently, with proponents of the poll voting 66% against us. It’s time to speak up! Please take a moment, scroll to the bottom of the article, and vote NO on the moratorium. Then, for hypothetical bonus points, comment...

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Ohio DNR Looking for Input on Ruffed Grouse Hunting Survey

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RGS & AWS members act now to enhance ruffed grouse and American woodcock habitat by taking Ohio DNR Survey! In 2019, the Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODW) offered an online survey on game bird hunting opportunities in the state. The survey responses helped shape Ohio’s current grouse hunting regulations.RGS & AWS encourages you to take this year’s survey to help secure proper management of ruffed grouse, ensuring a healthy, sustainable and huntable population in the future. This survey comes from ODW and is open to anyone interested in the management of ruffed grouse in Ohio.   Completing this brief survey will help ODW...

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Become an Advocate – Here’s How You Can Support Green Mountain National Forest’s Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project.

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Please speak up regarding forest health and habitat diversity on the Green Mountain National Forest before March 13, 2023. Click HERE. The Green Mountain National Forest is inviting public comments for the Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project located on the Green Mountain National Forest, Rochester and Middlebury Ranger Districts, and we need your support. The 72,250-acre project area is within Rutland, Windsor and Addison Counties, Vermont and includes the towns of Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen, Killington, Mendon, Pittsfield, Pittsford and Stockbridge. The Telephone Gap project includes various proposed forest and habitat management activities to achieve multiple resource goals, objectives and desired future conditions as...

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Message to Members Re: Nantahala & Pisgah National Forest Plan

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The Nantahala & Pisgah National Forest’s (the Forests) Forest Plan was finalized on February 17, 2023. RGS & AWS has been deeply engaged throughout the Forest Plan revision process advocating for the habitat needs of ruffed grouse, forest wildlife, and forest health. This includes comments we submitted to the draft Forest Plan on June 29, 2020, and objections we submitted to the revised Forest Plan on March 22, 2022. Combined, the Nantahala & Pisgah National Forests total about 1.04 million acres in western North Carolina and contain a large proportion of mid- to high-elevation sites within their boundaries, representing one of...

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