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New Hires Strengthen Habitat Work Across Southern Appalachians Region

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RGS & AWS is expanding its team in the Southern Appalachians with the addition of two Forest Wildlife Specialists: Justin Ireland in Tennessee and Pan Tankersley in South Carolina. Justin Ireland Ireland is a Tennessee native and life-long hunter with a bachelor’s in wildlife from Tennessee Tech and master’s of science in forestry from the University of Tennessee. After serving five years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Ireland worked as a field forester and consultant in Tennessee, and a wildlife research technician in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. Ireland’s role spans both private and public lands. On private lands, preparing Natural Resources...

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Green Mountain National Forest – Howe and Boy Blue Timber Sale Projects

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Featured Habitat Project – Covers Winter 2025 by Amelia “Melly” Napper | RGS & AWS Vermont Public Lands Forester In September 2023, RGS & AWS entered into its latest agreement with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to support forest management and implement on-the-ground habitat improvements on 6,000 acres across four iconic American national forests from Minnesota to Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest. The Somerset and South of Route 9 Integrated Resource Projects (IRP) on Green Mountain National Forest include management activities that aim to achieve multiple goals related to the Forest Plan. Creating forest habitat for diversity is an important objective for both...

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RGS & AWS Foresters Respond to Hurricane Helene – Grassroots action and federal and local partners bring relief to Southern Appalachia

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by Kristen A. Schmitt On Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, hours after making landfall at peak intensity along the Big Bend region of Florida, Hurricane Helene roared across the southeastern U.S., triggering catastrophic flooding in western North Carolina, East Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The Category 4 storm took the area by surprise, coupling the onslaught of rain with gale force winds that snapped oaks and hickories like twigs, leaving a decimated landscape in its wake. For Sean Barry, a resident of Marshall, North Carolina, no one believed it would be as bad as it was. “It caught us off guard,” said Barry, RGS &...

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Drumroll Please – The link between surveys and shells

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by Kris Millgate It’s the crunch of color-faded leaves flattening underfoot and the snag of elbow-patched sleeves passing branches. It’s also the feel of frost on face, gun in gloves and butterflies in belly. Add to those marvelous sensations, dogs on point and birds on wing. The scenario is outdoor perfection and it’s thrilling so the last thing you’re thinking about is the why behind what you’re experiencing. That’s understandable in the heat of the hunt, but afterward, after feathers weave through fingers, consider this: There’s actually years of strategy behind that fleeting moment. “We’re focused on forest health and it just...

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RGS & AWS’ Covers Magazine Wins 2024 Pinnacle and APEX Awards

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The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) received two Professional Outdoor Media Association’s (POMA) 2023 Outstanding Achievement awards in the “Magazine Complete – Print” and “Wildlife Conservation” categories, presented during the 2024 POMA conference in July at the South Carolina Waterfowl Association in Pinewood, South Carolina. The Pinnacle Awards honor journalists for their remarkable achievements in traditional outdoor sports-focused communications, including magazine publication, writing, photography/illustration/art, broadcasting and content focused on wildlife conservation. The Covers magazine issue that took home both awards was Winter 2022, which included articles on introducing young people to the world of upland hunting,...

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Featured Habitat Project – Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area: Maximizing Impacts and Paying Dividends

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by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes & Upper Midwest With funding from the Uihlein Foundation, RGS & AWS worked with the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (UWSP) in the summer of 2019 to create a Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area at their Treehaven facility (a 1,300-acre education, demonstration and research facility outside Tomahawk, Wisconsin). Treehaven is a logical location for a demonstration area, as it functions as the summer field station for the College of Natural Resources, where every year, approximately 240 natural resources college students complete…

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