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Take Action: Support Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA)

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RGS and dozens of conservation organizations and supporters have been working to pass landmark legislation known as RAWA that would dedicate almost $1.4B annually for state and Tribal wildlife agencies to improve habitat for at-risk wildlife, including ruffed grouse and American woodcock.  RAWA has been a top priority of the conservation community for decades because it would create a dedicated funding source for improving habitat for at-risk game and non-game wildlife.  With bipartisan support, RAWA was passed by the full House and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2022. This year, the House and Senate need to pass it and...

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Conservation Action Alert: Pelican River Forest Conservation Easement

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RGS & AWS Members, The Pelican River Forest in Wisconsin is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to protect nearly 70,000 acres of working forestland in Oneida, Forest and Langlade Counties. The Pelican River Forest will continue to be a working forest for forest products and permanently secure public access to more than 70 miles of recreational roads, whose maintenance will be funded by a private endowment. The roads, which have been closed in recent years, provide access throughout the forest for hunting, fishing, trapping, sightseeing and more. The benefits of this project are numerous, but there are two big challenges to completing the...

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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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Congress needs to pass Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA)

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RGS & AWS strongly urge immediate passage of the bipartisan bill that will ensure funding for State Wildlife Action Plans and other important conservation needs Ruffed grouse by Timothy Flanigan The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society recently signed a letter, along with many other conservation organizations, to encourage congressional leaders to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) before the end of the 177th Congress. Read the RAWA letter here. RAWA (H.R. 2773/S. 2372) would provide the necessary funding to implement the congressionally mandated, but severely underfunded, State Wildlife Action Plans.* It would also support critical Tribal and Territorial wildlife conservation...

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Please Speak Up for Green Mountain National Forest’s Early Successional Habitat Creation Project – Attend the June 8th Virtual Public Meeting

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We’re excited to announce that the Green Mountain National Forest’s Early Successional Habitat Creation Project (ESHCP) is ready to move ahead in 2022, and RGS & AWS is asking for your support. Spanning nearly 14,270 acres, the 15 year ESHC project will greatly enhance grouse and woodcock habitat, improve overall forest health & resilience, and work toward balanced forest conditions that can help bring grouse, woodcock and dozens of other bird and wildlife species back from the brink. After completing its Supplemental Information Review (SIR) of the project this winter, the USFS Green Mountain National Forest is ready to proceed with three...

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America’s hunters and anglers lead by example in the fight for conservation

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Global Connections of the Hunt Fish 30×30 Campaign By Brent A. Rudolph, Ph.D. | RGS & AWS Chief Conservation & Legislative Officer Photo by Brent Rudolph/RGS & AWS Please consider signing the petition supporting the Hunting and Fishing Community Statement In a report to the National Climate Task Force released yesterday (“Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful”), the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality laid out the plan for our nation’s involvement in the Thirty-by-Thirty Initiative (Thirty-by-Thirty). The initiative is a global effort to establish a goal of placing 30 percent of the planet’s lands...

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