Minnesota’s ruffed grouse hunting — widely considered the best in the nation — appears to be holding up this fall despite signs of natural population decline for the state’s most popular game bird.

The U.S. Department of Interior has decided that the greater sage grouse, a peculiar and distinctly Western bird, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. In a statement, Interior ...

ASKOV, Minn. — Bob Flach used to hunt grouse. Not anymore. That’ll happen when your prey becomes your buddy. “This amazes me,” Bob says as he cradles the ruffed grouse he named Lulu in his hands. “I ...

WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Land Management’s “Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning” was released today and lays out the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s habitat on public lands ...

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission has launched a new tool to identify prime ruffed grouse recovery areas for groups working to restore habitat for Pennsylvania’s state bird, which has experienced a ...

On a trail in the woods west of Hill City last week, a family of ruffed grouse burst into flight as an ATV crawled past. The birds - perhaps half a dozen of them - flushed in every direction as a bear ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

Veteran upland bird gunners would pose that the difference between grouse and partridge, for the most part, depends on your ...

Grouse hunters across Northeastern Minnesota say they're finding more birds than in the past couple of years. "I think I've shot more this year than last year, for sure," said Shawn Perich of Hovland.