Wednesday marked the opening of several hunting seasons in Wyoming. The season is now open for mountain grouse (blue and ruffed), mourning doves, squirrels, cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares. I ...

Sept. 8 - Two things are maddeningly axiomatic about the native bird commonly called blue grouse. Relatively abundant, they are the most underhunted and underharvested of Colorado's game fowl. A ...

Ruffed grouse are found around riparian areas and hardwood forests, while blue grouse favor evergreen forests and spruce grouse “are tied to lodgepole pine,” said Mick Cope, state game bird manager.

Courtest of the Outdoor News Group By Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review Grouse hunters peg the blame on non-native wild turkeys. While turkeys have boomed in recent decades, native forest grouse have ...

Working his way across State Game Lands 127 in Monroe County, Jim Boburka watches his dog, a 3-year-old Brittany named Dash, dig into the thick cover that dots many sections of the expansive public ...

I grew up hunting grouse with my dad in the Upper Clark Fork River Valley. In those days, we hunted fool hens and blue grouse. I rarely hear the term fool hen today. The name comes from the fact that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EAGLE COUNTY — In a normal year, Kent Lemon’s sporting art would never be confused with the abstract impressionism of Jackson Pollock. Then again, Lemon, a ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...