by Seth Bynum, DVM The spring thaw began its slow ascent from the valley floor to our favorite grouse covers in the timber. The dogs and I, wound tightly in […]
Covers Magazine
Women’s Grouse and Woodcock Hunt
by Nate Kennedy, RGS & AWS Northeast Regional Engagement Coordinator You lie awake, hearing the bells ring through your head like summer chimes on the mind’s front porch. The sound […]
Upland Honors
Story and Images by Perri Masotti Hunters are traditionalists. To varying degrees, of course, and most of our cherished activity occurs in the fall or winter, depending on where one […]
President’s Message – Covers Magazine, Spring 2022
The term “disturbance dependent” is well understood in our circles. We recognize that habitat diversity is essential, and in a healthy forest, disturbance delivers that diversity. Of course, that’s why […]
Getting to the Heart of Conservation
I’m a person whose life continues to be shaped by forests. When I was young, my family lived in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, next door to the hardscrabble farm where […]
Ambassadors for Forest Management
Thoughts on Conservation by Ashley Peters Conservation often requires cutting trees down instead of planting them, and we need more people telling that story. Forests are my first love, conservation-wise. […]
Know Your Cover: Southern Appalachian Forest Types
Southern Appalachian forests are some of the most biologically diverse forests on the planet. Western North Carolina alone contains all the major forest types you would see driving from Georgia […]
New Forest-Product Industry Partnerships Help Us Scale Up Our Habitat Improvement
Ben Larson highlights how new forest-product partnerships will help scale up habitat improvement and implement our model of working forests
Presidents Message: Winter 2021
Healthy, wildlife-supportive forests are age-diverse, like a family with multiple generations of young and old.
Radio Tracking Woodcock Chicks
Unique study finds downed logs used extensively for predator cover before green up
