Members Only
If you are seeing a Login area above, please note that prior Username Password Combos from our prior site will NOT work without proceeding through the process outlined in 2.) below.
We are implementing a forum and other member-only content. This page will become the login for that area.
We are in final testing now. Please do not attempt to login now. THANK YOU!
Members who have provided a valid email address will be notified when these areas are fully active. Others may simply Register on the forum and an email will be sent to all Registered users, or please check back soon!
The following is NOT complete! 3/9/2010
Join or Renew Now to take advantage of member-only benefits!
FAQs
1.) Must I login to view the RGS website?
2.) ALL Visitors Who Want To Login to This Website Who Have Not Already Followed This Procedure, PLEASE Read The Following!
3.) What are the RGS Forums?
4.) What is the RGS Photo Gallery?
5.) What are member-only areas?
1.) Must I login to view the RGS website?
No, RGS website visitors have full access to the vast majority of the site. RGS Members wanting to take complete advantage of their memberships by participating fully in the RGS Forums (including online Classified Ads and Hunt Trades), RGS Photo Gallery and Member-only areas, or who would like to maintain their membership address, phone and email must be logged in and have performed the LINKING one time. Please see items below for more information about these areas.
2.) ALL Visitors Who Want To Login to This Website Who Have Not Already Followed This Procedure, PLEASE Read The Following!
All FIRST TIME access to this version of the RGS website Forums, Photo Gallery and Member-only pages must be initiated via the registration process on the RGS Forums home page.
Note that this process should only be necessary one time, so please complete it to gain full advantage of your membership.
Those wishing to post only within the Public Forums, need only Register.
RGS Members, please read the following and print it for reference as you complete the steps:
Click the Register link on the RGS Forums page (middle of the nav bar near the top of the page) and follow the instructions. You may use any acceptable username password combo you'd like within the parameters provided by the Forum FAQs. Combos used on RGS' prior site may be acceptable but MUST be established here again. Do NOT use your full email address as your username; drop everything including and after the '@' or use something else.
NOTE: Without proceeding through this process, prior combos are not active, although prior posters to the forums have had their usernames imported to display with the prior threads/postings. If you were one of those users, you can obtain your username by clicking Forgot password? above, entering your email address (be sure to use the same one you last used in the prior site's forum), to have your username emailed to the email address on file along with instructions on setting your password. If that email address is not available please email webmaster@ruffedgrousesociety.org, stating your name, prior email and current email and your user accout will be updated and an email sent with information on how to login.
Once you complete the registration process, RGS members who have had a current membership at any time since 2008, should LINK this account with their RGS member data by clicking on User CP (User Control Panel) on the forum nav bar and follow the instructions. PLEASE NOTE: When this section asks for your Member Number, please carefully enter the one printed on your current membership card -- to be valid here it should show an expiration date AFTER September 2010 -- or your Fall 2009 or later ruffed GROUSE SOCIETY magazine (or provided in the email that will announce availability of the RGS member-only areas). Please verify the user data displayed in this process is yours. Even if it is out-of-date, please proceed with the process and you will be given the opportunity after the LINKING is complete to update it. If the data that is presented is not yours, please use your browser's Back button to return to the starting point to re-enter your number. If the data is still NOT yours, please contact Ron, 888-564-6747 toll free, during RGS normal business hours.
At the completion of the LINKING, please click User CP then Edit Membership Details. Verify all information including your Mailing Preferences at the bottom. The address displayed here is the one to which your magazine is mailed so be sure it is current. Save any changes. Once you are done with your membership data, then please explore the other links within the User CP so that you may setup the rest of your parameters for your online experience within RGS' Forums.
The Ruffed Grouse Society provides a message board/discussion area or forum for its members and site visitors. There are three major segments of the RGS Forums; Public for any Registered and logged-in user to post under several major topics, Members-only for logged in current RGS members to share information, and finally the RGS Marketplace for all to read online Classified Ads and Hunt Trades details posted by current members. Any site visitor, whether logged in or not may view all of the content of the Marketplace.
Testing ONLY!!! You may enter to read FAQs, set up your profile but please do NOT post yet. Thank you. RGS Forums
4.) What is the RGS Photo Gallery?
Within the RGS Forums is a link to the "Gallery" (RGS Photo Gallery). Here current members of RGS may post their own photos whose thumbnail pictures can be viewed by all but only members have access to the larger photos.
Testing ONLY!!! RGS Photo Gallery You may enter to read FAQs, but please do NOT post yet. Thank you.
5.) What are member-only areas?
They are areas available only to RGS members whose membership has not expired. In addition to the areas described above, there are pages for Management Area Program project reports and the RGS Banquet Manual, and various benefits/discounts provided to RGS members via various webpages only available to logged in members.
Currently, these include member-only discounts provided by Choice Hotels, Boyt/Bob Allen, Steiner and Ugly Dog Hunting. Login above before clicking the Read More links to be taken to pages describing the benefit and featuring links to the member-only Discount Code pages.
| Read More... | Discount Code |
| Choice Hotels | Choice Hotels Discount Code |
| Boyt / Bob Allen | Boyt/Bob Allen Discount Code |
| Steiner Binoculars | Steiner Info and Order Form Access (Discount Order Form) |
| Ugly Dog Hunting | Ugly Dog Hunting Discount Code |
An additional benefit is the ability to read/download/print project reports by state from the RGS Management Area Program page.
RGS banquet volunteers will be interested in the RGS Banquet Manual as well.
