Nov. 25—ST. PAUL — Hunting pheasants, ruffed grouse, squirrels or rabbits offers Minnesota hunters opportunities to continue enjoying the outdoors as temperatures fall and snow blankets the landscape, ...

Pheasants and ruffed grouse are open through Jan. 1 in Minnesota, and the season for squirrels and rabbits continues through Feb. 28, 2024. A ruffed grouse roosts at dusk in November 2003. Late-season ...

Duluth, Minn. Two weeks into ruffed grouse season, many hunters are already proclaiming it a banner year. Some hunters are finding mixed success depending on where they're hunting, but many are ...

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.

A male grouse "drums" or beats its wings on its chest to attract a mate in spring. This year's drumming count across the ruffed grouse range in Minnesota was the highest since 1972, but a wet June may ...

As the weather cools and leaves drop, Central Minnesotans tend to turn their attention to several things, but perhaps most prominently, football, hockey and hunting. The state has a de­ep history of ...

Hunters can help researchers in a study looking at whether hybridization between prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse is influencing prairie chicken populations. The long-term effects of ...

DULUTH — It was the Friday before Minnesota’s firearms deer hunting season when the dog and I went for a walk in the grouse woods about a half hour north of town. I was mostly looking for some ...

Here is the weekly report from Department of Natural Resources conservation officers in northwest Minnesota and adjacent areas of northern Minnesota for Monday, Oct. 14. CO Ben Huener (Roseau) checked ...

Hunters bagging Minnesota grouse at a good clip despite signs of a waning population Shooting is down from the state’s banner grouse hunt in 2023, but good numbers of birds are still flushing.