RGS MAP Projects Report
Management Area Program Projects
PUBLIC Land Management Assistance.
History and Goals
RGS has been involved with grouse and woodcock habitat research and education since the 1960's. A project dedicated in 1985 in northern Wisconsin formally kicked off the Management Area Program (MAP).
This program provides technical and financial assistance to public land management agencies to assist in the management of the lands they control for early successional wildlife, including grouse and woodcock habitat. Economic harvesting of timber is a major consideration of many public forest overseers. Because the benefit to grouse and woodcock is in small-block timber harvesting, and most timber harvesters prefer to harvest in large blocks, the Society assists public land managers in several ways. These include: providing funding to build timber harvest access roads through public forest lands, thereby reducing the costs and promoting small-block cutting; providing technical assistance via professionally trained personnel to help implement small-block cutting; helping to maintain timber access roads in readiness for future cutting by seeding to minimize erosion; and giving financial assistance to shearing alder brush to promote habitat suitable for ruffed grouse and woodcock.
The regional biologists working with local chapter representatives and the state wildlife and forestry agencies are responsible for setting up the projects.
There are currently over 610 projects in 28 states, encompassing more than 500,000 acres. Funding is over $3,561,000 from 1985 through December 2009. Individual state MAP Maps and Reports are available in the MAP Maps & Reports table below.
MAP and Special Project Maps and Reports
The table below presents states where RGS has been active with MAP projects. The individual state maps have each project approximately located with a number* and that number is shown in a table with the map showing the number of acres treated.
There is also a report for each state that lists greater detail for each project. Reports are available only to current RGS members logged into the site.
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* The numbers are shown in red on the maps
to make them stand out, so if you have problems
with red vision, please print the map in black and white instead of color.
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