RGS

Healthy Forests, Abundant Wildlife, Conservation Ethic

You are here: Home / Archives for jerseyshore

jerseyshore

Planting Projects: Dennis Creek WMA, Cape May County, New Jersey

by

The Jersey Shore chapter of the American Woodcock Society (AWS) and the New Jersey Fish and Wildlife team have completed our fifth partnership for a habitat/planting project on New Jersey Wildlife Management areas. This important partnership between the two organizations has delivered five successful planting projects in New Jersey during the past five years! The New Jersey Fish and Wildlife team had begun the reclamation of a series of fields at Dennis Creek WMA in Cape May County by hydro axing a total of six acres on February 2023. In May 2023 The Jersey Shore chapter assisted by providing 17 volunteers...

Read More

Upland Focus: Acre by Acre, Hope Grows for One of New Jersey’s Last Wild Game Birds

by

Read the original article in The Upland Almanac Every day on the southern tip of New Jersey, a stream of trucks and cars lines up for passage on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which has been carting passengers across the Delaware Bay since the 1960s. Cape May has also been a rendezvous point for American woodcock since long before there was a ferry — or a city — at the spot. “When woodcock are coming south, they sort of bunch up before they cross the Delaware,” says Ben Larson, a forest conservation director for the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society. New Jersey’s...

Read More

Project Highlight: Jersey Shore AWS – Prospertown Lake WMA

by

The Jersey Shore chapter of the American Woodcock Society and the NJ Fish and Wildlife team have completed our fourth partnership for a habitat project on NJ Wildlife Management areas. This important partnership between the two organizations has delivered 4 successful projects in NJ over the past 4 years. We assembled on Sunday May 19th, 2024 at Prospertown Lake WMA, Monmouth County NJ. This was a continuation of our 2021 project. We planted 126 alder trees to create staggered growth edges and also planted 20 persimmon fruit trees for the turkeys. We then applied seedling protector tubes so we can protect...

Read More

New Jersey Shore Chapter Update

by

May 7th project volunteers included: Iván Alvarez, Daniel Barry, Jim and Stephanie Carbin, Lenny Coulter, Ralph Di Iorio, Mark & Charles Dreyfus, Ron Granai, George Hogan, Troy Leid, James Luciano, Dave, Andrew and Luke Morris and Tony and Trey Panaro. The Jersey Shore chapter of the American Woodcock Society and the New Jersey Fish & Wildlife team have completed the third habitat project partnership on New Jersey Wildlife Management areas during the past three years. The New Jersey Fish & Wildlife team had begun the reclamation of a series of fields at the Dennis  Creek WMA in Cape May County, New Jersey. First, they hydro-axed...

Read More

American Woodcock on the Jersey Shore – RGS

by

Photo By | Tim Flanigan – NatureExposure.com Borrowed Birds American woodcock migration maps resemble an airline’s route map for the eastern United States; these birds love to move. Like an airplane, woodcock need proper places to land in every state they visit. The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) provides its local chapters with the resources and professional expertise needed to foster habitat for these migratory birds. Regional chapters, like the newly assembled Jersey Shore chapter of the AWS, provide local knowledge and connections needed on the ground.  [Read more…] about American Woodcock on the Jersey Shore –...

Read More

Join Or Renew Now