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 […]
Habitat
Featured Habitat Project – Southwest Virginia Update
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 […]
Know Your Cover – Northeastern U.S. Forests
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, […]
Great Lakes/Upper Midwest Featured Habitat Projects
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 […]
Know Your Cover – Hawthorn
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 […]
Know Your Cover – Species-group profile: Cherries
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 […]
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 […]
Radio Tracking Woodcock Chicks
Unique study finds downed logs used extensively for predator cover before green up
Conservation organizations partner with Domtar to improve forest wildlife habitat
Pennsylvania’s state bird, the ruffed grouse, and a wide range of other Species of Greatest Conservation Need will benefit from the partnership
Out of Balance
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” […]
