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 ...

The lack of heavy rains, late-season cold snaps, or serious droughts in Carlton County this year could result in a healthy grouse hunting season, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 13. "I'm predicting ...

Perhaps even more than drumming counts, weather conditions during the breeding season in late May and early June drive ruffed ...

The ruffed grouse and spruce grouse hunting season begins on Sept. 13, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has ...

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 ...

This is one of the worst years for reproduction that we’ve seen for sharptail in the past 20 years,” upland game biologist ...

Like a lot of wildlife, grouse prefer the edges of different habitats, such as a timber clearcut next to a mature forest.

The ruffed grouse is a medium-sized game bird with a plump body and a short crest. Their height is around 18 inches. It spends its time foraging on the forest floor for seeds and insects—these birds ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officials are asking grouse hunters to drop off wing samples to better understand populations across west-central Montana.Samp ...