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Action Trackchairs for Wingshooters with Bird Dogs!Track2wing Project Applications Available All terrain access for wingshooters with bird dogs! RGS & AWS along with Pheasants Forever and the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association, is helping spread the word about the Anisfield-Wilson Track2wing Project – a program to grant Action Trackchairs to individuals with mobility challenges who want to train and hunt with bird dogs. Applications are available now until March 31, 2024. Track2wing was founded in 2020. Since then, Track2wing has granted 39 Trackchairs to recipients all across the country. Applications are reviewed by a six-person committee. Those approved take...

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RGS & AWS Partners with Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust on Habitat Restoration Project in Massachusetts

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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust is a recipient of a Cornell Land Trust Grant for 2023. The Cornell Lab’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative awarded grants to 14 land trusts throughout the country to assist with management and restoration of private protected lands, integrate bird conservation into prioritization and planning, and develop partnerships within the birding community to amplify conservation efforts. Mount Grace’s work funded by this grant will focus on Guiney Memorial Forest, a 33-acre wildlife sanctuary in Royalston. This small sanctuary has various habitat types, including maturing white pine, hemlock, and hardwood forest as well as a diverse understory,...

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RGS & AWS Awarded $110,000 from New York Natural Resources Conservation Service Grant

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The New York Natural Resources Conservation Service awarded the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) Northeast conservation team a $110,000 Conservation Innovation Grant to implement critical forest habitat work on public and private land surrounding the Helderberg Bird Conservation Area in Albany and Schoharie Counties in New York.  The Helderberg Forest Resiliency Initiative will coordinate and promote habitat management work across public, private and conservation easement ownerships as well as produce new monitoring and mapping capacity to analyze forest age and diversity at a landscape scale. The project will include:  300 acres of forest habitat work – enhancing...

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The Importance of Partnerships in Conservation

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By Todd Waldron | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Northeast  I was a hunter long before I was a forester. A decade before basal area, stocking charts and silvicultural systems crossed my path, my grandfather and I sat under a big white pine that no longer stands, waiting for deer that never came, on a woodlot our family no longer owns. We contemplated deer sign and talked about witch-hobble, hardhack, popple and prickly ash. We talked about cutting next year’s firewood and corduroying the road and about the old garnet mine up on top of the hill. We seldom...

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Critical Need in Massachusetts for Public Comment

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We just received notice of a virtual meeting this Tuesday, September 12, where your voice is seriously needed. They are hosting a Public Input Session regarding Climate-Oriented Forest Management Guidelines that will affect the direction of the state moving forward. As you know, Massachusetts has some challenges in accepting active forestry as a management practice – and now’s your time to make your voice heard. (REGISTRATION INFO BELOW) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT As a primer, we provided some talking points whether you’re able to send in advance or speak up at the meeting, sharing your personal experiences. There are 570 Species of Greatest Conservation Need...

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RGS & AWS Awarded $180,000 to Launch New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative 

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The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation’s New England Forests & Rivers Fund awarded the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) Northeast conservation team $180,000 to implement critical forest habitat work throughout the region. Known as the New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative, the project will advance landscape-level forest habitat projects aimed at increasing habitat diversity across the St. Lawrence Valley of New York and the Champlain Valley of Vermont. The project will include: 2 large-scale dynamic forest restoration blocks in NY and VT with 4,000 acres under management 1,000 acres under improved forest management on surrounding private...

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