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RGS & AWS Continues to Grow Impact in the Great Lakes Region

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by Jon Steigerwaldt, RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes and Upper Midwest RGS & AWS continues to grow our impact in the Great Lakes region, a critical area for our mission-related work that spans seven states – Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. We’re pleased to announce that our rapid rate of growth and escalating work necessitates the addition of new senior staff leadership. We are dividing the Great Lakes Forest Conservation Region into eastern and western divisions, adding a senior-level forest conservation director position to continue to build out our growth in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. This...

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RGS & AWS Forest Service Partnership Improves Habitat in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest, Draws Partner Praise

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A diverse roster of conservation and resource management agencies underscored the importance of sustainable, science-based forest management to wildlife in a stewardship agreement being led by the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society and the U.S. Forest Service. The multi-year partnership in the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeast Kentucky is improving close to a thousand acres of forest wildlife habitat. Habitat diversity, achieved when forests are managed to create a variety of age classes and structures, is critical to healthy forest wildlife populations, the stakeholder groups stressed. On the Boone, young forest conditions are essential to reversing population declines...

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Q2 2024 Mid-Atlantic Habitat Spotlights

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We’re excited to share the Mid Atlantic second quarter Habitat Spotlight. This handout showcases three regional projects spearheaded by local chapters. To learn more about any of the projects we encourage you to contact the chapter directly. Chapter contact information and all other regional news can be found on the Mid Atlantic page of the RGS & AWS website.

Read: Q2 2024 Mid-Atlantic Habitat Spotlights

RGS & AWS Leads Coalition to Support Forest Management on Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest

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RGS & AWS is leading the charge to support sustainable forest management in Wisconsin, forming a 30-member coalition in support of the Fourmile Vegetation Management Project, a significant forest management initiative in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Once implemented, the project will complete 12,277 acres of forest/habitat management and wildland fire risk reduction projects in northern Wisconsin. In addition, it will create 5.3 miles of controlled burn lines, create 1.2 miles of new access road construction and maintain more than 36 miles of hunter-walking trails, all contributing to the preservation and enhancement of the forest ecosystem and in coordination with the Chequamegon-Nicolet...

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Satellite Tracking and the Science of Woodcock Migration

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by Erik Blomberg, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Conservation Biology, University of Maine Each year around the second week of March, I make a habit of standing in my central Maine backyard around dusk, waiting and hoping to hear the peent!s and twittering sky dance of the first male woodcock of spring. For me, the return of woodcock marks the true end of the Maine winter. Eight months later, sometime in November, my dog will point the last woodcock of the year, signaling the end of fall. I suspect I’m not the only one who uses woodcock...

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Alder Cutting at Tionesta Lake to Improve Woodcock Habitat

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Forest County, Pennsylvania After the USACE consulted with Ben Larson of RGS, on ways to improve wildlife habitat along Tionesta Creek. Ben suggested they regenerate patches of alder along Tionesta Creek to improve habitat for woodcock, grouse and other wildlife. Ben also suggested that they create a hunter access/wildlife viewing trail through the area. Joe VanOrd of the USACE contacted our chapter for assistance with cutting the alder patches and creating the trail. After a meeting between USACE staff and chapter members, we decide to set up 2 workdays in March and April of 2023. We had a good turnout for...

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