After what seemed to be an eternity — at least to me — forest grouse season opens next week. Idaho’s season starts on Aug. 30. Utah’s starts Sept. 1. For hunters who don’t use a bow to pursue big game ...

I've relished –; often with envy –; the stories of 20, 30 and 40-flush days that were the norm in the '60s, '70s and into the early '80s, rather than the exception that they are now. Since about 1985, ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse” and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse ...

According to the GFP, there were 19,000 prairie grouse hunters in South Dakota last year, a figure which has largely held ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

A proposal that would require grouse hunters to be 20 yards from their vehicles before shooting may face an uphill battle in the Minnesota Legislature. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...