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 ...

Sep. 6—Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is a tricky business, at best, because the forest birds aren't readily visible along roadsides or open terrain most of the year. Instead, ...

If there’s an underlying theme for Minnesota ruffed grouse hunters going into this year’s season opener, it’s this: Charlotte Roy, grouse research scientist for the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

Ruffed grouse drumming increased this spring in two of three priority areas and the species appears to be on the upward phase of its traditional 10-year population cycle in Wisconsin, according to the ...

Grouse hunters in both Minnesota and Wisconsin should see seasons similar to last year’s, if not a bit better, according to grouse experts in both states. The ruffed grouse season opens Saturday and ...

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 ...

DULUTH — A warm and dry summer may not have been the best thing for your scorched-brown lawn, but it was probably great news for little ruffed grouse chicks and the people who like to hunt them when ...

BOTTINEAU (AP) - Things like this are just not supposed to happen. The sighting of a ruffed grouse nest is so rare that biologists, even when searching for ruffed grouse fitted with radio tracking ...