Sharp-tailed grouse hunters in Minnesota and North Dakota are being asked to send in wing samples from harvested birds. The samples will go through DNA analysis and be used to evaluate the genetic ...

Most sharp-tailed grouse hunting is now found in Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, and southern portions of the prairie provinces of Canada.

A barred owl made quite a stir in Arlington, Virginia, over the Christmas holiday. The bird evidently was playing Santa Claus ...

The first human case of bird flu has been detected in Nevada. The CDC reported a Churchill County dairy farm worker tested ...

The Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) will sponsor Birds “N” Brews from 6 to 9 p.m. March 1 at the Straub Brew House @Straub Tap ...

The final hunt of the season went about as well as most of the others. I followed the dog with optimism, punching through ...

Hunters had good weather most of the upland season, and habitat remained strong on the landscape where it could be accessed, ...

An experienced hunter can often predict from evidence on these maps whether an area is likely to hold the game he seeks. In ...

A Hotchkiss-area ranch is one of seven around the country that has been recognized by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association as regional winners of the 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award Program.

I’ve spent considerable time over the last several falls hunting the sagebrush steppe ecosystems of Utah and Idaho in pursuit of sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and chuker.

Another reader sided with my cousin: “This 87-year-old grew up hunting ruffed grouse around my home town of Milaca (Minnesota). Down there, we referred to that wily bird as a ‘ruff,’ or more ...