BOTTINEAU, N.D. -- Things like this are just not supposed to happen. The sighting of a ruffed grouse nest is so rare that biologists, even when searching for ruffed grouse fitted with radio tracking ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring population counts were down in 2021 compared to 2020 as grouse numbers appear to be dropping away from a recent high in 2017, but hunters could still have good numbers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 6—Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is a tricky business, at best, because the forest birds aren't readily ...

BOTTINEAU (AP) - Things like this are just not supposed to happen. The sighting of a ruffed grouse nest is so rare that biologists, even when searching for ruffed grouse fitted with radio tracking ...

While spring ruffed grouse drumming counts were up this year in northern Minnesota, a cold, wet spring and early summer may lead to fewer grouse chicks surviving and fewer grouse in the bag for ...

The Minnesota DNR's spring drumming counts showed a statewide increase in drums-per-stop from 1.3 in 2021, to 1.9 in 2022. The increase was unexpected because grouse are in the dwindling stage of the ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring population counts are up from last year, which was not expected during the current declining phase of the 10-year cycle – a pattern recorded for 72 years. “While ...