North Carolina/Georgia RGS chapters are striving to ensure national forests are properly managed in the Southern Appalachian Region to preserve our grouse hunting traditions for future generations. The famed conservationist […]
Ecology
2016 GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Virginia/Tennessee
Virginia/Tennessee Grouse/woodcock hunters are speaking for the wildlife that cannot speak for themselves – influencing forest management on public lands. Only partially down the Tennessee mountain trail, Parker Street, of […]
2016 RGS GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Monterey, Virginia
RGS 2016 GROUSE CAMP TOUR – Monterey, Virginia The Birthplace of the Ruffed Grouse Society Walking down the short main street of Monterey, Virginia, a small mountain town in the […]
Driftless Young Forest Symposium
Today, the Ruffed Grouse Society brought together agency professionals from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois to focus on landscape-scale goals to enhance future young forest habitat in the Driftless Region. […]
RGS Responds to Anti-Forest Management Message
Earlier this spring, the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society determined at a strategic planning meeting that public resistance to scientifically sound habitat management practices was one of the […]
Book Review – A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac
A GROUSE HUNTER’S ALMANAC The Other Kind of Hunting By Mark Parman Published 2010 – University of Wisconsin Press Mark Parman has been a longtime contributor of classic grouse and […]
Tilling Between the Timber
Being born and raised in north central Pennsylvania and growing up hunting in back mountain areas, now often referred to as the Pennsylvania Wilds region, clover simply was not to […]
2015 RGS & AWS Annual Report
RGS & AWS are the nation’s leading voice for forest wildlife. DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW HERE The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society significantly progressed in 2015, and we couldn’t have […]
Scout Spring Drummers & Find Fall Covers
Off-season scouting can lead to important clues and fall success in the grouse woods, and NOW is the time to go! Watching a male ruffed grouse drum his spring beat […]