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Collaboration to Maintain, Restore, and Enhance Forest Conditions and Wildlife Habitat on the National Forests in Georgia

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Agreement Narrative: Collaboration to Maintain, Restore, and Enhance Forest Conditions and Wildlife Habitat on the National Forests in Georgia   Primary Funder: USDA Forest Service  Location: Chattahoochee National Forest, Gainesville, Georgia  Innovation: This is a modification to our existing challenge cost-share supplemental project agreement with the Chattahoochee National Forest. The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) and the Chattahoochee National Forest will collaborate on efforts to implement active forest management treatments in the Fightingtown Creek Project on the Conasauga Ranger District of the Chattahoochee National Forest. We will collaborate on issues relating to sustainable forest management, forest health and ecosystem...

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RGS & AWS Signs Stewardship Agreement on the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina

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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 Completes Second NFWF Grant Project in Pennsylvania

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RGS & AWS is excited to have completed our second National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant focused on building our private lands technical assistance program in Pennsylvania. Together with the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC), American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), we were able to fund habitat improvement projects on over 800 acres of forestland. These habitat improvements included a variety of practices such as herbicide and mechanical treatment of competing vegetation and silvicultural supplement payments to remove low-value stands and reset early successional habitat.    Outreach done under this project reached more than 5,000 individuals, including 606 landowners…

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Dear Hunter Project: The Give For Grouse Initiative – Giving Ruffed Grouse a Future

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Ruffed Grouse, The King of Spring, the Bellwether of All Forest Wildlife, has a very fragile future. According to the Ruffed Grouse Society, their populations have declined at least 50% throughout the Eastern United States in the last 20 years and current projections indicate numbers will be zero in our lifetime. So please, join us as we introduce the Give for Grouse Initiative and work to bring ruffed grouse back to our forests. Your donations will be earmarked strictly for ruffed grouse management projects. We will take your dollars and distribute them to groups and organizations all across the ruffed…

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Hiawatha Early Successional Project (Michigan)

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Agreement Narrative: Hiawatha Early Successional ProjectPrimary Funder: Hiawatha National Forest (Challenge Cost Share)Location: Hiawatha National Forest, MichiganInnovation: This project leverages a mutual interest in working together to enhance early successional species habitat across the landscape. By creating a patchwork of various age classes of aspen and alder, this project aims to provide habitat diversity for ruffed grouse and American woodcock nesting, brood rearing, and winter habitat components in close proximity to each other.Impact: This project directly impacts 195 acres within the St. Ignace Township region of the Hiawatha National Forest. One hundred acres of mature and over-mature aspen will be...

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Huron-Manistee Stewardship Agreement (Michigan)

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Agreement Narrative: Huron-Manistee Stewardship Agreement Primary Funder: Huron-Manistee National Forest (Stewardship Agreement) Location: Cadillac-White Cloud Ranger District, Huron-Manistee National Forest, Michigan Innovation: Utilizing the USFS goods-for-service Stewardship program, will contract to establish and administer commercial timber projects.  The timber harvest activity itself will contribute to forest age-class diversification within the region, while proceeds from the sale will be used to fund additional acres of commercial timber harvest as well as habitat and access projects within the Cadillac-White Cloud Ranger District of the Huron-Manistee National Forest. Impact: The initial phase of this project will see the sale and contract administration of a 99-acre aspen timber...

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