SOUTH OF BALL CLUB - In the woods of the Chippewa National Forest, with the late morning sun shining through mostly leafless trees, a beam of light enveloped an English setter named Tyler that was ...

SALOL, Minn. - In the category of game birds, ruffed grouse is the tastiest around. If Willie Krzoska, a 79-year-old resident of rural Roseau County, wanted that delicious entrée for dinner, he wouldn ...

Walter the ruffed grouse began pecking around Todd Westward's backyard while his wife and daughters were on vacation — now, they hang out every day While Mary Beth Westward and her two daughters were ...

A few days ago, while doing some research on the Pennsylvania Game Commission website, I clicked on a link to a video titled “Tame Grouse.” The short film showed Game Commission ruffed grouse ...

BAXTER, MINN. - Last Wednesday evening about 40 people kicked the snow off their boots and shuffled into the Northland Arboretum to attend a program about Minnesota's grouse. Despite an overnight ...

Have you encountered any ruffed grouse in Pennsylvania that appear to be tame? Grouse that “show little fear” are of interest to the Pennsylvania Game Commission and researchers. The ruffed grouse has ...

GRAND FORKS – Trail cameras do a remarkable job of revealing the natural world, and I wish I’d had one set up at the site of a ruffed grouse kill last weekend. It was early Saturday afternoon, Oct. 29 ...

Ruffed grouse hunting grew up in 19th century New England, so naturally it can be a bit of a prude. So genteel in certain circles, so neatly wrapped in tradition and style, it must seem to some ...

Ten years ago I created an artificial ruffed grouse drumming log on my property south of town. My hope was the fake log would be to the liking of a romantic male grouse, and would ultimately become a ...

Wisconsin has long been home to some of the North America's highest densities of ruffed grouse and some of the best hunting opportunities for the upland bird. But the native, naturally-reproducing ...

At one-half hour prior to sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 19 the 2020 Minnesota hunting season on ruffed grouse will commence. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conducts annual springtime ...