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 The Ruffed Grouse Society Twin Cities Chapter We encourage you to join us to discuss issues in our area. Sportsmen for Change spokesman, Gary Leaf, will also be in attendance and lead a discussion on issues facing sportsmen. We may also be paid a visit by retired state senator, Bob Lessard. Possible other topics include: Shared RGS Biologist position, hunter walking trails, and forestry management for early successional species For questions please contact RGS regional director Dave Johnson, Phone: 715-492-5858, or e-mail at uptrek@gmail.com or Terry Lydell at terrylydell@qualityci.us Minnesota Grouse Biologist In cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, this year RGS will help to fund a biologist position in the area to focus primarily on ruffed grouse projects. Read more about the cooperative effort in our upcoming Summer issue of the RGS magazine.
Save The Date For The 32nd Annual Sportsmen’s Banquet Why join your local committee? I have set our first organizational meeting for February 9th, 7:00PM at Gander Mountain 10650 Baltimore St NE, Blaine, MN 55449. Terry Lydell Twin Cities Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society Fall Sportsmen's Banquet at Earle Brown Heritage Center August 18, 2009 Our 31st Annual Chapter fundraiser for the RGS was held at Earle Brown Heritage Center, Brooklyn Center, MN. This event is a great opportunity for business networking or rewarding clients interested in hunting and conservation. Bring your Dad to thank him for introducing you to the outdoors, or your kids to learn about conservation. Plenty of information will be available to answer questions about land management and upland bird hunting. Clays Shoot
Side events include Ed Erickson of Autumn Breeze Kennel- Introducing young dogs to birds, gunfire, and E-collar. www.abkc.com From the South -- Take 35 W North to exit #32 or 95th Ave. The exit ramp will spin you around facing west, keep going across the freeway to the next stoplight which will be Naples St NE. Follow the road around the curves and we are all the way down at the end of the road right before the dead end. www.metrogunclub.com Download flyer here (pdf) RGS Chapter Meet and Greets 2009
About the Chapter The RGS Twin Cities Chapter meets on the second Thursday of the month, 10 months of the year. Any RGS member can join us. So why join? About the Ruffed Grouse Society Founded in 1961, the Society had as its initial objective the fostering of a better understanding of the ruffed grouse and its environment. Since then, based on extensive RGS-supported research, the Society has been instrumental in the creation of numerous publications detailing how to manage woodlands for wildlife. The educational material is available for a nominal fee to landowners and forest managers, as well as others interested in the lives of grouse and American woodcock. The Ruffed Grouse Society is still keyed to helping improve woodland habitat for ruffed grouse, woodcock and many other kinds of forest wildlife. Essential to RGS' achievement of its goals is an energetic banquet/events fund-raising program. There are approximately 150 RGS chapters in the U.S and Canada, the majority of them active in the fund-raising program. Among the dividends of the Society's continued fund-raising success are two RGS conservation initiatives that have had a positive impact on many thousands of acres of woodland wildlife habitat. One of these programs (Coverts) instructs woodland owners in conservation-related issues. The companion program (Management Area Program - MAP) allows the Society to help directly implement forest wildlife habitat improvement on public lands. Essentially, Coverts brings small groups of concerned private, non-industrial forest owners-identified by agencies such as the Extension Service - together for three-day seminars on forest management techniques that emphasize wildlife habitat conservation. As a part of the seminars, the participants learn the value of spacing small cuts throughout a woodland when harvesting timber. Over time, as subsequent small cuts are made, age diversity is created. This not only ensures a steady harvest of forest products from the woodlands, but it sets up ideal habitat for many kinds of forest wildlife. In exchange for the training provided during the seminars, the landowners agree to actively promote forest wildlife habitat improvement in their communities for at least a year.
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