The South Red Bird Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project is the area of focus within the Daniel Boone National Forest (KY), where RGS & AWS will be targeting the work. More than 950 acres are slated for habitat improvements through this project over the next 3 years.
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The Hunted
by Timothy C. Flanigan All images provided by Timothy C. Flanigan. Seeing the dark-eyed barred owl rise silently from the forest floor with my very-much-alive woodcock in its talons sparked […]
Stewart Makes Huge Contributions to Grouse and Woodcock During Career
By Jeff Helsdon When Al Stewart was 12, he started woodcock hunting. Little did he imagine his passion would turn into a remarkable career. Al retired on April 1, 2021, […]
Radio Tracking Woodcock Chicks
Unique study finds downed logs used extensively for predator cover before green up
Woodcock as a Southern Bird
by Tom Keer A few winters ago, Quebec’s Don Keddy, a field trialer and grouse and woodcock hunter, had enough. The long, gray, Canadian winters are hard on bird doggers. […]
Mid-Winter Woodcock Nesting
by Gary G. Youngblood In late February of 2019, I was driving west on Interstate-64 with my young English setter Patches. We were traveling to West Virginia to grouse hunt […]
Conversations & Partnerships – Northeast Region Fall 2021
Nate Kennedy, Northeast Regional Engagement Coordinator, recaps the Orvis Sandanona Game Fair 2021 and the people he met there.
Michigan Update for Fall 2021
Glen Blackwood, Director of Regional Development for the Eastern Great Lakes, provides a fall 2021 update for RGS & AWS in Michigan.
Michigan Wildlife Habitat Grant Awarded to RGS & AWS
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently announced that the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society was awarded a State Wildlife Habitat Grant in the amount of $56,800.
Homecoming Week for Sporting Classics With Chris Dorsey
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics features host Chris Dorsey returning to his home state of Wisconsin for a classic grouse and woodcock hunt with the Ruffed Grouse Society.