In 2019, RGS/AWS partnered with the Ashland Co Forestry and recreation Dept to rehabilitate the Silver Creek Hunter Walking Trail system. This included mowing/brushing 2 acres of wildlife openings and […]
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The C.D. Buzz Besadny Fish and Wildlife Area Grouse and Woodcock Habitat Improvement Project (Wisconsin)
The C.D. Besadny Fish and Wildlife Area Grouse and Woodcock habitat improvement project was initiated in February 2019 to regenerate swamp brush to support grouse and woodcock habitat adjacent to […]
Ashland Co. Ruffed Grouse Management Area (Wisconsin)
In 2019, RGS began a partnership with the Board of Commissioner of Public Lands (BCPL). BCPL manages 77,000 acres of school trust lands across northern WI. Because of their unique […]
Carlin-Weld Habitat Improvement Project (Wisconsin)
Thanks to a donation from a passionate RGS/AWS supporting foundation, the Jefferson County Parks and Forestry Dept. received a $1,000 project contribution for habitat restoration at Carlin-Weld County Park in […]
Tiffany Wildlife Area Habitat Project (Wisconsin)
In 2019, RGS/AWS Forest Conservation Director Jon Steigerwaldt sat on the selection committee for the Cherish Wisconsin Outdoors Fund (a habitat fund made possible by Wisconsin hunters who volunteer to […]
Falcon Springs Wildlife Area Land Acquisition (Iowa)
RGS is continuing to support public land acquisitions in Iowa. Iowa is commonly ranked towards the bottom of all states in terms of acres of public land open to hunting. […]
Woodcock habitat management at Mt Nebo Wildlife Management Area (Maryland)
The following description is from RGS’ project partner Rick Latshaw at the MD DNR: Project Description: Project Justification. This project is designed to improve alder habitat conditions for American woodcock […]
Mineland reforestation at Jennings Randolph Lake (Army Corps of Engineers facility Maryland)
Decade-long, landscape-scale collaboration at Jennings Randolph Lake (JRL), a US Army Corps of Engineers project on the North Branch of the Potomac River (MD and WV). Since 2013, RGS and […]
Alder planting at Prospertown Lake (New Jersey)
[Description from Jersey Shore AWS president Mark Dreyfus; to prevent spot burn, map icon is located on Prospertown Lake WMA generally and not at project location] In the Fall of […]
RGS Young Forest Partnership at Moraine State Park (Pennsylvania)
[Jeff Herrick, Habitat Management Biologist Contractor with the Wildlife Management Institute submitted the following blog for RGS’ Bellwether newsletter] Pennsylvania State Parks Create Forest Habitat Diversity to Benefit Young Forest […]
