Minnesota’s ruffed grouse hunting — widely considered the best in the nation — appears to be holding up this fall despite signs of natural population decline for the state’s most popular game bird.

Veteran upland bird gunners would pose that the difference between grouse and partridge, for the most part, depends on your ...

CO Jamus Veit (Bemidji #1) spent the week checking grouse, squirrel, and archery deer hunters. He conducted a wolf-depredation investigation, handled a nuisance-bear complaint, attended training, and ...

CO Tony Elwell (Cloquet) monitored archery deer and waterfowl hunting. Waterfowl activity was low. Most local birds have ...

The bear hunting season in Minnesota wrapped up with a dip in harvest numbers, while young hunters enjoyed success during the ...

Grouse hunters continue to report few opportunities, but those willing to get out and walk trails are having more success than those sticking to the gravel. CO Shane Zavodnik (Virginia) worked on ...

Sep. 11—CLOQUET — The lack of heavy rains, late-season cold snaps, or serious droughts in Carlton County this year could result in a healthy grouse hunting season, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 13.

Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys. His dog is a Chesapeake and he shoots a ...

Inside/Outside State College is a monthly column by Jeff Deitrich offering views on downtown and the outdoors within a ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...