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Southern Appalachian Chapter Shoot

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Join the Southern Appalachian Chapter for an afternoon of shooting at Fowler Farms Sporting Clays! Prizes will go to the top three shooters and the top scoring team of 4. Participants can register solo, and we will put teams together the day of the shoot. After shooting and prizes we will head to the Orvis store in Asheville to celebrate the end of the Orvis Giveback Days fundraiser that runs the month of May, raising money for habitat work in North Carolina! In 2023 the Orvis store in Asheville partnered with RGS & AWS for the Giveback Days fundraiser in...

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2021 Grouse Habitat Improvements on Cold Mountain Game Land and the Roaring Creek Tract of Pisgah Game Land (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: 2021 Grouse Habitat Improvements on Cold Mountain Game Land and the Roaring Creek Tract of Pisgah Game Land.  Primary Funder: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) Location: Western North Carolina Innovation: Our project will increase capacity to conserve ruffed grouse and other “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” identified in the North Carolina State Wildlife Action Plan through forest habitat management. The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) will restore habitat diversity (structure and age-class) at biologically significant landscape scales. In addition to reversing declining grouse and other wildlife numbers, the holistic...

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Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn Association (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn Association   Primary Funder: Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc. (COCO) Location: Western North Carolina Innovation: Our project will increase prescribed burning and reduce wildfire risk with private landowners in western North Carolina by engaging private landowners and coordinating a prescribed burn association (PBA). Our Southern Blue Ridge PBA will decrease the obstacles for private landowners to implement burns on their forest land by providing training opportunities, education and outreach events, providing shared personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment, and working with partner organizations and contractors to construct firebreaks, prepare prescribed burn plans, and implement prescribed burns on private lands....

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Restoring Young Oak Forests in the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina

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Agreement Narrative: Restoring Young Oak Forests in the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina  Primary Funder: American Forests Location: Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina Innovation: Our project will restore young oak forests by implementing a noncommercial habitat improvement treatment on the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest. The habitat improvement treatment will thin smaller diameter trees in the forest to help establish oak seedlings in the understory. This treatment will be completed in advance of a commercial timber harvest. Once the oak seedlings develop on the forest floor, a commercial timber harvest will release them and create...

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Sugar Creek Stewardship SPA (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: Sugar Creek Stewardship SPA Primary Funder: Nantahala National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Nantahala Ranger District, Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina Innovation: Repackaging timber sale that previously went no-bid when offered as a conventional timber sale contract. Commercial timber harvests will create young and open forest conditions. Service work items include noncommercial habitat improvements such as thinning to promote hardwood saplings in middle-aged forests, wildlife field maintenance, nonnative invasive plant control, and roadside wildlife fields. The sale includes aerial logging operations, so there will be a need to support advanced timber harvesting systems in the project.  Impact: The stewardship project will generate the following...

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The Triangle Chapter Birds & Brew

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Please join us as we announce a new Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society chapter in Raleigh NC, “The Triangle” Chapter. Enjoy a night of socializing and celebration at our inaugural event.

Each registered attendee will be given 1 drink ticket and the chapter is providing the food. We’ll hold a raffle of RGS merchandise to benefit conservation of forest wildlife and support for our new chapter. Members will have the opportunity to win a hat or t-shirt. All bird dogs welcome!

RGS & AWS staff will be in attendance discussing habitat work and the future of the society in North…

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