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 ...

A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do often. The Minnesota DNR is collecting spruce grouse tail feathers from hunters this fall as part of a genetic study to see if grouse populations are ...

ALBANY -- Genetic analysis at the state museum confirms what biologists squishing through Adirondack bogs already knew: New York's population of the spruce grouse, a chickenlike bird of the boreal ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that few ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A four-year study into northern Minnesota’s little-known spruce grouse population has found the birds are still part of a genetically healthy, interconnected population that’s not yet ...

Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests are being asked to voluntarily submit feather samples for a genetics research project. The project is being conducted by the Minnesota ...

May was a mere seven hours old and a veil of fog hugged the ground. But even in the dim early light, it was clear spring had fully sprung in the North Woods. This encounter occurred in Wisconsin, but ...

It is one of the state's rarest critters, maybe the rarest non-migratory bird. Most people in the North Country have probably never even heard of a spruce grouse, more-the-less seen one, for its ...

A poster child for the Northern Forest, the spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is one of the rarest birds in Vermont. Not only does the species depend on a relatively small patch of lowland spruce ...

ST. PAUL -- Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests can help with a genetics research project being conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in partnership with ...