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.

The grouse hunting season is off to a slower start this year throughout the Superior National Forest and the northeastern ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Minnesota’s North Woods are being sold to the state’s timber products industry, and deer — and deer hunters — will pay the price with lower populations, and lower harvests, for years to come. Ruffed ...

Reminder: Salt blocks commonly purchased from retail stores are often not legal to use during the deer season. Salt blocks ...

Like so many big things, it started small, this fall tradition, a father and son from the Twin Cities area venturing to a friend's place "Up North" to try their luck at ruffed grouse hunting during ...

The first leg of this October celebration brought us to a couple of Hunter Walking Trails in Beltrami Island State Forest to try to flush up a ruffed grouse or two.

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.