The season of long walks with a shotgun is upon us. Washington’s forest grouse hunting season begins Sunday, drawing hunters into the woods with dreams of wingbeats. Some hunters view their September ...
As goes aspen habitat, so goes Minnesota's ruffed grouse populations. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the abundance of aspen and other habitat is a big reason the state is ...
The ruffed grouse is a medium-sized game bird with a plump body and a short crest. Their height is around 18 inches. It spends its time foraging on the forest floor for seeds and insects—these birds ...
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 ...
IN THE CHIPPEWA NATIONAL FOREST — They have pitched an old army tent and rekindled old friendships at this time in October for the past 22 years, here in a thick maple forest painted bright yellow by ...