The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) recently signed the Sugar Creek Stewardship Agreement on the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina. The project, previously shelved as a “no-bid” timber sale, will improve forest health and habitat through active forest management on 409 acres across a 1,912-acre project area. The project will include 192 acres of commercial timber harvests to create young and open forest conditions, 11 acres of roadside daylighting, 148 acres of post-harvest site preparation to establish natural regeneration, 10 acres of wildlife opening management, 48 acres of nonnative invasive plant control and installation of...
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RGS & AWS Voice: Spring 2020 Covers Magazine (Vol 32, Issue 1)
by Brent A. Rudolph, Ph.D. – RGS & AWS Chief Conservation and Legislative Officer Printed in Covers Spring 2020 FROM PRINCIPLES TO POLICY TO PRACTICE: STEWARDSHIP OF OUR NATIONAL FORESTS Increasing the Scope and Scale of Critical Forest Treatments On August 16, 2018, the USDA Forest Service published a report, Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-Based Investment Strategy, and announced the implementation of a new strategy for improving forest conditions by increasing “the scope and scale of critical forest treatments.” In reality, the tools and strategies composing Shared Stewardship represented the realization of opportunities supported through an investment of considerable time and effort...
