Proposal/Agreement Summary: Domtar’s 3-year partnership pledge with RGS and the Dynamic Forest Partnership (DFP particularly including American Bird Conservancy and Indiana University of PA; Audubon Mid-Atlantic; and PA Game Commission) […]
Mid-Atlantic Projects
Restoring Forest Structure in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland, 2022-2026
Proposal/Agreement Summary: Restoring Forest Structure in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland, 2022-2026 Primary funder: S Kent Rockwell Location: PA, MD, WV Innovations: Industry partnerships, especially integrating our reporting into ESG […]
Partnering to improve forest habitats, connectivity, and climate resilience through implementing and planning cross-boundary dynamic forest restoration blocks along the Kittatinny Ridge (Pennsylvania)
Proposal/Agreement Summary: Partnering to improve forest habitats, connectivity, and climate resilience through implementing and planning cross-boundary dynamic forest restoration blocks along the Kittatinny Ridge Primary funder: NFWF Ches WILD (Watershed […]
Phase Three of Increasing Technical Assistance to Implement Management Plans that Improve Habitat on Private Lands in PA (Pennsylvania)
Proposal/Agreement Summary: Phase Three of Increasing Technical Assistance to Implement Management Plans that Improve Habitat on Private Lands in PA Primary funder: NFWF Central Apps Location: around DFRBs within PA […]
Woodcock habitat management at Mt Nebo Wildlife Management Area​ (Maryland)
The following description is from RGS’ project partner Rick Latshaw at the MD DNR: Project Description: Project Justification. This project is designed to improve alder habitat conditions for American woodcock […]
Mineland reforestation at Jennings Randolph Lake (Army Corps of Engineers facility Maryland)
Decade-long, landscape-scale collaboration at Jennings Randolph Lake (JRL), a US Army Corps of Engineers project on the North Branch of the Potomac River (MD and WV). Since 2013, RGS and […]
Alder planting at Prospertown Lake (New Jersey)
[Description from Jersey Shore AWS president Mark Dreyfus; to prevent spot burn, map icon is located on Prospertown Lake WMA generally and not at project location] In the Fall of […]
RGS Young Forest Partnership at Moraine State Park​ (Pennsylvania)
[Jeff Herrick, Habitat Management Biologist Contractor with the Wildlife Management Institute submitted the following blog for RGS’ Bellwether newsletter] Pennsylvania State Parks Create Forest Habitat Diversity to Benefit Young Forest […]
Forest management and habitat work on the Loyalsock State Forest​ (Pennsylvania)
In 2019, as part of a collaboration with the PA DCNR, RGS helped fund herbicide treatment as part of a forest management and habitat project on 26 acres of the […]
Fire line construction at Buchanan State Forest​ (Pennsylvania)
In 2019, RGS paid for the construction of 5 miles of fire lines at Buchanan State Forest, which will enable PA’s Bureau of Forestry to re-introduce prescribed fire and diversity […]