Minnesotans chasing a cavalcade of seasonal colors often parade at this time of year from the Twin Cities to Duluth and from there farther north along the Lake Superior shoreline. Alternatively they ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

Ruffed grouse hunting grew up in 19th century New England, so naturally it can be a bit of a prude. So genteel in certain circles, so neatly wrapped in tradition and style, it must seem to some ...

The ruffed grouse season opens in mid-September and does not end until sunset on New Year’s Eve, but few hunters pursue grouse in November and December. In fact, during the 30-plus years I have hunted ...

CO Troy Fondie (Orr) reports small-game hunting was a nonevent as little activity — and even fewer birds — was observed.

The best kind of hiking season is about to start. Washington’s forest grouse season opens Monday, and hunters and their dogs will be headed to their favorite honey holes in the woods with dreams of ...

For many people, the essence of autumn is grouse hunting along a brush-covered hillside or walking down an old logging road through the woods behind a good bird dog. It is the sights and sounds ...

Hunters took fewer ruffed grouse and woodcock than they did last year at the 36th annual National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt, held Oct. 12-13 in and near Grand Rapids. The hunt is sponsored by the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air was ...