Minnesota grouse hunters harvested just 358,000 birds last fall during the peak year of the species' 10-year population cycle. That number is much closer to past harvests at the low end of the cycle ...

A month into Minnesota's grouse season, the verdict still seems to be out on bird numbers. Is this the big jump in grouse numbers that spring drumming counts seemed to indicate, or is it just a bit ...

Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is an inexact science at best, but based on drumming counts, at least, Minnesota’s breeding population was down from last year. In a news release, the ...

DULUTH — The number of male ruffed grouse heard drumming in April and May as part of their spring mating ritual was up again this year in the Northland, signaling a continued higher population, but a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharp-tailed grouse hunters in Minnesota and North Dakota are being asked to send in wing samples from harvested birds. The ...

Ruffed grouse drumming counts increased 18 percent statewide this spring, according to a survey by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Counts were up 16 percent in Northeastern Minnesota ...

Like in 2022, spring drumming counts are up for the state's ruffed grouse spring population in its core range in northern Minnesota, according to the Department of Natural Resources. In a news release ...

One year after Minnesota grouse hunters enjoyed a phenomenal harvest, they’re settling in for a season that they can only hope will be fair to good. “It seems like there are patches that are good, but ...

As the weather cools and leaves drop, Central Minnesotans tend to turn their attention to several things, but perhaps most prominently, football, hockey and hunting. The state has a de­ep history of ...

Hunters can help researchers in a study looking at whether hybridization between prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse is influencing prairie chicken populations. The long-term effects of ...

The golden years of grouse hunting in southeastern Minnesota are long gone -- and they probably won't be back. Frankly, those years were an anomaly. For at least two decades -- the '60s and '70s -- ...