I love how shockingly loud grouse sound when busting from cover, how loud drumming on logs (think a gas lawnmower) sounds. I came to Illinois nearly 40 years ago, when there was still a chance to ...

With ruffed grouse populations showing minimal change across Minnesota, hunters can expect to have a relatively decent season ...

This year, the counters heard an average of 2.1 drumming males per stop across all regions, up from 1.9 in 2022 and continuing an upward trend after a low point of 1.3 drums per stop in 2021 ...

“We saw grouse, but we rarely ever hit one,” Amman said. Amman earned his forestry degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moved north 20 years ago to take the job at Bayfield County.

Unless grouse migrate into North Dakota from neighboring states, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s home state will be the first one in decades to completely lose its sage grouse population.

The average grouse harvest at the event was 0.88 grouse per hunter per day. It is on par with the 10-year mean of 0.85 but substantially lower than last year (1.24) and the 42-year mean (1.19).

More grouse and turkey were heard during spring surveys this year than during recent seasons, according to Gary Norman, a Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist.