The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) recently signed the Sugar Creek Stewardship Agreement on the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina. The project, previously shelved as a “no-bid” timber sale, will improve forest health and habitat through active forest management on 409 acres across a 1,912-acre project area. The project will include 192 acres of commercial timber harvests to create young and open forest conditions, 11 acres of roadside daylighting, 148 acres of post-harvest site preparation to establish natural regeneration, 10 acres of wildlife opening management, 48 acres of nonnative invasive plant control and installation of...
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Old forest not the best for ‘bellwether’ birds
Read The Original article The tall canopy of mature trees that graces the forests near Brevard may be attractive, but the old growth masks a subtle side affect: a less-than-the-best environment for some creatures that would instead benefit from younger stands of trees and grassier expanses more indicative of what the forest used to be. That was one upshot from a hour-long presentation Friday by forester Nick Biemiller during a Transylvania Natural Resources Council (TNRC) meeting Biemiller is forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society. Ruffed grouse numbers across Appalachia have declined 71 percent since 1989, but while the name implies concern...
GDIY: Gundog It Yourself Podcast SERIES featuring Nick Biemiller
Last year Nick Adair and his team at GDIY: Gun Dog It Yourself produced a fantastic series interviewing the Southern Appalachians Forest Conservation Direction Nick Biemiller and for a few episodes, our President & CEO Dr. Ben Jones.The result is a masterclass walking you through how RGS & AWS work with public and private entities, what the alphabet soup of terms mean and how the orchestration of the working forest model moves our mission forward. We highly recommend you give it a listen! This is the first episode of a new mini bonus series featuring the Ruffed Grouse Society. I’ll be...
