Female sage grouse move as a group at a site in northwest Colorado. New UW-led research examines the impact of hunting restrictions on the iconic bird across the West. (Jeff Beck Photo) A thorough ...

The annual grouse hunting season opened on Tuesday. One of the first bird hunting seasons of the fall, grouse can be very challenging birds to hunt. Or, they can be incredibly easy. It just depends on ...

The season for hunting grouse began mid-month for those still willing to look for one. There exists a suggestion implicit in the small and vanishing population that grouse, male and female, have been ...

This story, “Best Grouse Hunting in America,” appeared in the Sept. 1985 issue of Outdoor Life. Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is ...

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 ...

This year, 52 observers from across Minnesota’s ruffed grouse range – all wildlife and natural resources professionals – provided brood count data. Its wings a blur, a male ruffed grouse drums in ...

North Dakota’s greater sage grouse population appears to have gone extinct, the latest setback in the ongoing battle to save the iconic Western bird and its dwindling sagebrush habitat. State wildlife ...

A sage grouse and a free-roaming horse are seen in the Adobe Town wild horse herd management area of south-central Wyoming. Newly published research shows that, when wild horse populations are allowed ...