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Habitat

A Field Tour of Early Successional Habitat Improvement Projects in North-Central Minnesota

February 10, 2023 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Scott Johnson | RGS & AWS Forest Wildlife Coordinator – Minnesota & NW Wisconsin RGS & AWS staff and partners in Minnesota organized a two-day field tour event in […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Habitat, Western Great Lakes

Featured Habitat Project – Southwest Virginia Update

November 1, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by: Charlie Mize, RGS & AWS Public Lands Wildlife Forester – Southwest Virginia There it went, exploding out of the rhododendron and beelining for refuge in the next holler, the […]

Filed Under: Habitat, Southern Appalachian Tagged With: southern appalachian

Know Your Cover – Northeastern U.S. Forests

June 15, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Todd Waldron | RGS & AWS Northeast Region Forest Conservation Director The U.S. Northeast is home to more than 50 million acres of mixed northern hardwoods and boreal forests, […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Habitat, Northeast, Northeast Media Tagged With: forest habitat, habitat

Great Lakes/Upper Midwest Featured Habitat Projects

May 19, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes/Upper Midwest In Support of Land Acquisition “Land, they haven’t found a way to make that out of plastic […]

Filed Under: Habitat, Western Great Lakes Tagged With: conservation, habitat

Know Your Cover – Hawthorn

May 11, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Jared Elm | RGS & AWS Forest Wildlife Specialist Covers Magazine – Spring 2019 We say hawthorn, thornapple, whitethorn, hawberry – or maybe even an occasional expletive when it […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Ecology, Habitat Tagged With: habitat

Know Your Cover – Species-group profile: Cherries

March 24, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Stefan Nelson, RGS & AWS Forest Wildlife Specialist The Upper Great Lakes states have three species of native cherries, all belonging to the Prunus genus and the Rosaceae family […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Grouse Ecology, Habitat

Know Your Cover: Southern Appalachian Forest Types

February 21, 2022 by Nick Biemiller

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 […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Ecology, Habitat, Southern Appalachian Tagged With: habitat, southern appalachian

Radio Tracking Woodcock Chicks

February 7, 2022 by admin

woodcock research

Unique study finds downed logs used extensively for predator cover before green up

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Ecology, Habitat, Read, Western Great Lakes, Woodcock Ecology Tagged With: american woodcock, American Woodcock Society, research, science

Conservation organizations partner with Domtar to improve forest wildlife habitat

December 14, 2021 by admin

Ruffed grouse by Timothy Flanigan

Pennsylvania’s state bird, the ruffed grouse, and a wide range of other Species of Greatest Conservation Need will benefit from the partnership

Filed Under: Announcements, Habitat, Mid-Atlantic, Read, Working Forests Model Tagged With: habitat, Mid-Atlantic, pennsylvania, ruffed grouse

Out of Balance

October 21, 2021 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Tim Flanigan The Ruffed Grouse Society was just 15 years old in 1976 when I attended the Society’s annual meeting in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The audience included the “whose-who” […]

Filed Under: Covers Magazine, Habitat Tagged With: habitat, ruffed grouse

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