RGS

Healthy Forests, Abundant Wildlife, Conservation Ethic

You are here: Home / Archives for Covers Magazine

Covers Magazine

Featured Habitat Project – A Conservation Partnership Improving Ohio’s Last Intact Marshland

by

Printed in Covers Summer 2020 Many of us at the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society often speak about the opportunities that diverse partnerships hold, knowing that many of our fellow conservation organizations share very similar missions and overall objectives when it comes to healthy forests and the diverse wildlife that benefits from them. The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Woodcock Society is leading the charge in diversifying these partnerships and unifying conservation organizations for the common good. This chapter recently began a multi-phase project at Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area, located 35 miles north of Akron in northeastern Ohio...

Read More

RGS & AWS Voice: Spring 2020 Covers Magazine (Vol 32, Issue 1)

by

by Brent A. Rudolph, Ph.D. – RGS & AWS Chief Conservation and Legislative Officer Printed in Covers Spring 2020 FROM PRINCIPLES TO POLICY TO PRACTICE: STEWARDSHIP OF OUR NATIONAL FORESTS Increasing the Scope and Scale of Critical Forest Treatments On August 16, 2018, the USDA Forest Service published a report, Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-Based Investment Strategy, and announced the implementation of a new strategy for improving forest conditions by increasing “the scope and scale of critical forest treatments.” In reality, the tools and strategies composing Shared Stewardship represented the realization of opportunities supported through an investment of considerable time and effort...

Read More

FEATURED HABITAT PROJECT – Town Forests for Local Conservation

by

Errol Town Forest and Milan Community Forest Printed in Covers Spring 2020 We derive great benefit from public land as a venue – for many of us, the only venue – for our outdoor pursuits. The RGS & AWS works with many federal, state and county agencies to improve grouse and woodcock habitat and access on national forests, state forests/wildlife management areas and county forests across the country. In northern New Hampshire, three towns have taken conservation into their own hands, each forming a town forest that’s actively managed for multiple uses. The towns of Errol, New Hampshire (population 291 in 2010),...

Read More

Featured Habitat Project – Seeking New Partnerships to Increase Impacts

by

by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Regional Biologist Published in Covers Winter 2020 Nestled into the bedrock of the Grand Rapids, Minnesota, community for almost 120 years is a symbol of habitat creation apparent to any ruffed grouse hunter, both visiting or resident. As an inlet for raw wood from public and private land ownerships, UPM Blandin Paper Company helps create young forest wildlife habitat in the heart of the upper Great Lakes grouse range. Managing approximately 188,000 acres (most in Itasca County), Blandin was untapped potential to partner with and create hunting opportunities. When Blandin Forester and RGS member Adam...

Read More

Preserving History – Woodcock Rillettes

by

by Krissie Mason Covers magazine – Summer 2019 There’s something disturbing and illuminating about a modern loaf of bread that sits on the counter for a month and doesn’t sprout the tiniest spot of green fuzz. In contrast, my rustic, home-made yeasted boule will become a perm-headed Bob Ross Chia Pet if not consumed within a few days. As food tends to be paramount to our survival, it’s no wonder we developed a preoccupation with the preservative technologies of the times to avoid spoilage. Centuries before benzoates, sulphites, nitrites and sorbates, comestibles from fall hunts and domestic harvests like Pyrenean chamois, Black Forest...

Read More

President’s Message: Put Me In, Coach

by

by Benjamin C. Jones | RGS & AWS President & CEO As I write this, it’s mid-April, the sun is out, but it’s damp and chilly. That has me reminiscing about heading to the Pittsburgh Pirates opener at Three Rivers Stadium every year with my dad: The emerald green field as we emerged from the concourse, the smack of the ball hitting gloves during warmups and the cutting chill posed by the spring air and all that concrete in the old stadium. I still love baseball, although my own playing time was cut short with the realization that it impeded on...

Read More

Join Or Renew Now