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About the Chapter
2007 Chapter Committee Roster
| Banquet Coordinator | Dave Barczak | Vice President | Jim Koehler
| Clays Shoot Coordinator
| Micheal Woodson |
| Webmaster/ Communications
| Joel Schnell
| Gun Chair
| Jim Tehennepe |
| Treasurer/Banquet Ticket Chair
| Donna Tirpak | Prize Chair
| Kurt and Andrea Olson |
| Habitat Day
| Dave Kufahl
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Join Us On The Chapter Committee
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?
Get to know your fellow Grouse hunters, and help out the habitat needs of Ruffed Grouse. Get a chance to choose the guns and prizes for the Sportsman's Banquet. Help us organize our four events throughout the year. Every meeting includes talk of hunting and shooting, and food and beverages are served. We meet at locations around the Twin Cities. Several of our meetings are at a local gun club, with a round of clays after the meeting. And last, but not least, every committee member may join us for our October Hunt weekend in Northern Minnesota! Email Webmaster@twincitiesrgs.com for more information.
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.
Game Fair-Twin Cities Chapter Committee members visited with the fairgoers at the RGS booth. The Game Fair was held at the Armstrong Ranch in Anoka. Information about Grouse and Woodcock was available, and we raffled off a shotgun each weekend.
The Twin Cities Chapter had a booth at the Pheasants Forever Youth Day. We educate aspiring grousers on hunting upland birds during the Anoka County Chapter Youth Education and Fun Day.
Kids built a wood duck house amoung other activities. Our booth featured a display of the variety of grouse hunting gear and how it contributes to a successful hunt. We show how to clean a grouse, and find hunting spots on a topo map. Kids enjoy the hands-on examining of compasses, boots, GPS units and the different types of bird guns.The Pheasants Forever Ringneck Program also includes the quarterly publication of Ringnecks Magazine.
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