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.
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Chris Dorsey returns to Wisconsin to hunt ruffed grouse and woodcock with Ruffed Grouse Society July 15, 2021 (Castle Rock, Colorado) — Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – features host Chris Dorsey returning to his home state of Wisconsin for a classic grouse and woodcock hunt. Joining him are David Moore and Ruffed Grouse Society CEO Dr. Ben Jones. The timing is fortuitous as the birds are near the peak of their 10-year cycle, providing plenty of mixed bag opportunities in...
Roger Moore RGS & AWS Chapter forged ahead with a key habitat project despite 2020 challenges and delays By Glen Blackwood, Eastern Great Lakes Director of Regional Development Originally published in Spring 2021 issue of Covers Magazine. “Conservation is NOT canceled” has been the overriding mantra of RGS & AWS, our chapters and membership during the past year. While the pandemic’s impacts caused fundraising and other chapter events to be postponed, our work on young successional forest management and wildlife habitat creation continued in 2020. Through everything, RGS & AWS members and staff forged ahead, ensuring that conservation remained a priority. One such...
President’s message from Ben Jones, RGS & AWS President & CEO – originally printed in Summer 2021 issue of Covers Magazine As I write this, it’s mid-April, the sun is out, but it’s damp and chilly. That has me reminiscing about heading to the Pittsburgh Pirates opener at Three Rivers Stadium every year with my dad: The emerald green field as we emerged from the concourse, the smack of the ball hitting gloves during warmups and the cutting chill posed by the spring air and all that concrete in the old stadium. I still love baseball, although my own playing time...
by Krissie Mason Covers magazine – Summer 2019 There’s something disturbing and illuminating about a modern loaf of bread that sits on the counter for a month and doesn’t sprout the tiniest spot of green fuzz. In contrast, my rustic, home-made yeasted boule will become a perm-headed Bob Ross Chia Pet if not consumed within a few days. As food tends to be paramount to our survival, it’s no wonder we developed a preoccupation with the preservative technologies of the times to avoid spoilage. Centuries before benzoates, sulphites, nitrites and sorbates, comestibles from fall hunts and domestic harvests like Pyrenean chamois, Black Forest...
Global Connections of the Hunt Fish 30×30 Campaign By Brent A. Rudolph, Ph.D. | RGS & AWS Chief Conservation & Legislative Officer Photo by Brent Rudolph/RGS & AWS Please consider signing the petition supporting the Hunting and Fishing Community Statement In a report to the National Climate Task Force released yesterday (“Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful”), the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality laid out the plan for our nation’s involvement in the Thirty-by-Thirty Initiative (Thirty-by-Thirty). The initiative is a global effort to establish a goal of placing 30 percent of the planet’s lands...
