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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces the Ruffed Grouse Society as 2023 Grant Recipient

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Pittsburgh, Pa. (February 1, 2023) – The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) was recently awarded nearly $500,000 to continue habitat work in Pennsylvania. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced more than $3.7 million in grants to restore forest and freshwater habitat in central Appalachia, including projects in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, naming the RGS & AWS as a recipient of funding. The Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program awarded the grants, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,...

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Tennessee Grouse Hunters, Speak Up Now About the Pond Mountain Project on the Cherokee National Forest!

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Act now and urge the U.S. Forest Service to increase their efforts to create needed habitat for ruffed grouse and American woodcock on the Cherokee National Forest! The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society strongly encourage the USFS to increase the amount of early successional forest being proposed. Your voice is needed – please click the link below to submit your comment before February 18, 2023. The Pond Mountain Project includes multiple management prescriptions from the Cherokee National Forest’s Forest Plan within the boundaries of the project area. Specifically, prescription 8.C that has an objective to achieve 4% to 8% early...

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RGS Receives Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund Grant for Woodcock Habitat Restoration

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RGS & AWS is excited to announce that we’ve recently been awarded a Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund to restore woodcock habitat in Downeast Maine. The Downeast Lakes Land Trust Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project connects two nationally recognized conservation partners with a demonstrated commitment to sustainable forests, local communities, outdoor recreation, and wildlife habitat diversity. RGS & AWS unite conservationists to improve wildlife habitat and forest health for ruffed grouse, American woodcock, and all forest wildlife. We promote forest stewardship for our forests, our wildlife, and our future. We envision landscapes of diverse, functioning forest ecosystems that provide homes for wildlife...

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Green Mountain National Forest Early Successional Habitat Creation Project​ (Vermont)

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Green Mountain National Forest Early Successional Habitat Creation Project – RGS & AWS is leading the way as the conservation partner in support of the 12,000 + acre Early Successional Habitat Creation Project on our federal public lands in Vermont. The Green Mountain Chapter RGS & AWS has provided funding for project planning & layout and forest wildlife & bird monitoring for the project, which is slated to begin in Fall 2023.

Figure 8 Hunting Access Project​ (New York)

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RGS & AWS’s North Country Chapter is working with NY Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the forest manager LandVest to expand seasonal recreational access on the 3,939 Figure 8 Public Use Area in the Sable Highlands Conservation Easement Area. This project entails parking area and gate construction work that will open up the access road seasonally during bird hunting season and provide parking areas.

Finger Lakes National Forest Woodcock Habitat Restoration​ (New York)

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The Finger Lakes National Forest Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project was initiated in the winter of 2022. RGS & AWS leveraged a grant from the National Forest Foundation to begin restoring woodcock habitat on the Hector District. We worked with the NF biologist to identify 7 blocks of woodcock habitat that needed to be reset to early successional habitat and the mastication work was completed by a local contractor in February 2022.
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