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 North Country forest tends to swallow up time. One instant the birch branches are flailing in the November wind, and the ...

I don’t know where I made the wrong turn. It was a dark day-scudding clouds, flat-lit, chilly, damp-and there are few ...

A new chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society hopes to put attention on grouse and habitat improvement in the Driftless area.

After spending most of the past two weeks traveling and bird hunting in Nova Scotia and New York, the vagabond and his dogs have returned to Orange. It was a most enjoyable getaway and the dogs ...

All gun dogs are special in their own way, but it's usually our first bird dogs that teach us the most important lessons.

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

CO Troy Fondie (Orr) reports no youth hunters were seen for the youth deer hunt. Small-game hunting from an ATV was popular. Few grouse were observed harvested and numbers appear down considerably ...

A good bird dog is an essential part of the pheasant hunting experience. Here are some of the reputed best breeds.

Squirrels, rabbits, ruffed grouse and ring-necked pheasants are the four primary species of small game for Pennsylvania hunters. The squirrel season opened back in mid-September, and the rabbit and ...

Before Isaiah Osborne signed up for the military at age 17, before he went into active duty after graduating from New Ulm ...

Maria Nunez was found mauled to death by two dogs in Georgia on Wednesday, Oct. 8 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest.She joins ...