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 […]
Success Stories
Pere Marquette Forest Habitat Collective (Michigan)
Agreement Narrative: Pere Marquette Forest Habitat Collective Primary Funder: Michigan Wildlife Habitat Grant Program Location: Baldwin Ranger District, Huron-Manistee National Forest, Michigan Innovation: A landscape-level forest habitat enhancement project focused […]
Southern Michigan Woodcock Habitat (Michigan)
Agreement Narrative: Southern Michigan Woodcock HabitatPrimary Funder: Michigan Wildlife Habitat Grant Program Chapter Funding: Robert J. Lytle Chapter, Roger Moore Chapter, Saginaw Valley, Chapter, Southwest Michigan ChapterAdditional Funding: Uplanderlifestyle.com, The Michigan […]
Building an Adaptive Management Framework for the Green Mountain National Forest Early Successional Habitat Creation Project (Vermont)
Primary Funder: University of Vermont Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) Funding Amount: $25,000, RGS match, $12,500 Project Title: Building an Adaptive Management Framework for the Green Mountain National Forest Early […]
New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative
Primary Funder: NFWF New England Forests & Rivers Fund Funding Amount: $180,000 Project Title: New York and Vermont Forest Block Initiative Location: St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Clinton, Franklin Counties New […]
Downeast Lakes Land Trust Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project (Maine)
Primary Funder: Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund Funding Amount: $18,150 Project Title: Downeast Lakes Land Trust Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project. Location: Downeast Lakes Community Forest, Grand Lake Stream, ME Innovation: The […]
Featured Habitat Project – Ruffed Grouse Habitat Demonstration Area: Maximizing Impacts and Paying Dividends
by Jon Steigerwaldt | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Great Lakes & Upper Midwest With funding from the Uihlein Foundation, RGS & AWS worked with the College of […]
Landscape-Scale Grouse Habitat Restoration Along Pennsylvania’s Kittatinny Ridge
Part of RGS & AWS’ Statewide Collaboration with the Pennsylvania Game Commission by Ben Larson | RGS & AWS Mid-Atlantic Forest Conservation Director How do we implement RGS’ model of […]
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces the Ruffed Grouse Society as 2023 Grant Recipient
Pittsburgh, Pa. (February 1, 2023) – The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) was recently awarded nearly $500,000 to continue habitat work in Pennsylvania. The National […]
RGS Receives Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund Grant for Woodcock Habitat Restoration
RGS & AWS is excited to announce that we’ve recently been awarded a Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund to restore woodcock habitat in Downeast Maine. The Downeast Lakes Land Trust Woodcock […]
