NAVHDA Members!
Ready to pick out your shirt now? Let’s do it!
We’re pumped to share what we’ve been up to.
If you’d like to learn more about our conservation work – keep reading.
About The Habitat
1. They need a mixed-aged forest to thrive. That means young shrubby patches, dense sections of thumb- to wrist-size trees and even old canopy timber.
2. Their typical range is across the Canadian border, along the east coast to the southern tip of Appalachia. The problem is that forests through much of that area are “aging out,” in other words, not offering the mixed mosaic explained above.
3. RGS & AWS work with public and private landowners to facilitate forestry projects that will replicate disturbances similar to what occurs in nature – when people don’t stop it. Natural disturbances include forest fires, windfalls, floods, beavers, etc. Our most common tool is timber production.
If you’re walking through the woods on a grouse hunt and branches knock your hat off your head, if it doesn’t reach the ground then you’re in the right place. ~ OLD GROUSE WISDOM
Who is RGS?
Members first! We’re a member-driven organization made of passionate conservationists across the U.S., Canada and beyond. Members organize chapters, perform habitat projects, amplify advocacy campaigns and otherwise communicate our shared priorities to politicians.
In the spring of 2020, we took a risk and changed our organizational model. After three years, we can confirm this was the right choice, and here’s why:
Our previous average of funding into habitat before 2020 was about $450,000 per year. At the end of 2022, the total came to around $9,000,000 towards habitat projects, and we’re pacing to double that in 2023. We expect our acreage under influence to reach 200,000 acres by the end of this year.
Is that as exciting to you as it is to us? We hope so!
Our team is divided into five regions:
Each region is led by a Forest Conservation Director and is staffed by Engagement Coordinators, who are the primary chapter and outreach liaisons. There are additional conservation delivery staff members who are the “in the woods” professionals making sure the projects continue to flow.
Your generosity through a special offer like this accelerates our ability to secure additional funding for landscape-scale habitat projects.
If you haven’t checked out your regional page before – take a look!
NAVHDA Dogs In The Grouse Woods
Underlying these aims is the desire to serve the interests of game conservation, prevention of cruelty to animals, and the gun dog hunter by helping the hunter to train his dog to work before and after the shot, on land and in water.
There’s no better partner in the grouse woods than a well-trained dog. As a NAVHDA member, we want to honor the hard work, time and resources it takes to build your hunting companions. We hope you’ll enjoy this shirt as a reminder of our partnership – whether you wear it in the training fields or at the watering hole after test day.
Train hard, test easy and make habitat!
