by Mark Herwig Forests and forest creatures, no matter what part of the country they’re in, benefit from more complexity. If you want more grouse, woodcock and other game and […]
Ecology
Featured Habitat Project – Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area: Maximizing Impacts and Paying Dividends
by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes & Upper Midwest With funding from the Uihlein Foundation, RGS & AWS worked with the College of […]
A Field Tour of Early Successional Habitat Improvement Projects in North-Central Minnesota
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 […]
Know Your Cover – Ironwood
by Jared Elm | RGS & AWS Forest Wildlife Specialist – Wisconsin Ironwood (Ostrya Virginiana,) also called hop-hornbeam, is a small, deciduous tree in the birch (Betulaceae) family. Ironwood is […]
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 […]
