By Meadow Kouffeld, RGS & AWS Regional Wildlife Biologist Despite the current negative state and federal climate toward public land holding, RGS and partners are working with government agencies to […]
Grouse Ecology
THEY SAID IT! . . . Best Quotes from the Spring RGS Magazine
THEY SAID IT! . . . Best Quotes from the Spring RGS Magazine By Matt Soberg Are you an upland hunter? Bird dog owner? Shotgun lover? Have you become afflicted […]
What is it like to watch a drummer?
CONNECTING THE DOTS . . . From Habitat to Hunting By Matt Soberg, RGS & AWS Editor & Director of Communications This is what it’s like to watch a spring […]
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 […]
Grouse Color Phases – What You Need To Know
**Excerpt from A Grouse in the Hand, Tips for Examining, Aging & Sexing Ruffed Grouse published 2014 by RGS and authored by S. DeStefano, R.L. Ruff and S.R. Craven. Many […]
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 […]
Significant Snow Levels Benefit Grouse in the Winter
Extreme cold and low/no snow are the worst conditions for ruffed grouse in winter. Many areas in the upper Midwest have had lower than normal snow amounts this year leading […]
