WHAT IS A SAGE GROUSE? Mottled brown and easily overlooked in their native setting as a rock or a piece of wood, the sage grouse is not much to look at until spring breeding season. That’s when the ...

The sooty grouse is a species of forest-dwelling grouse native to North America’s Pacific Coast Ranges. It is closely related to the dusky grouse found east of the Cascades and into Montana. The two ...

ASKOV, Minn. — Bob Flach used to hunt grouse. Not anymore. That’ll happen when your prey becomes your buddy. “This amazes me,” Bob says as he cradles the ruffed grouse he named Lulu in his hands. “I ...

WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Land Management’s “Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning” was released today and lays out the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s habitat on public lands ...

For the past several years, Nevada's hunters, anglers, ranchers and other outdoorsmen have anxiously awaited an official decision regarding the possible listing of sage grouse as an endangered species ...

Of all the species of gallinaceous birds that occur in Minnesota, only sharp-tailed grouse, also called "sharptails," and ...

UPPER PENINSULA — In the Keweenaw Peninsula, Rick Baetsen knelt on an old log. He started beating his knee with his hand, faster and faster. “I’d really be ticked if someone were kneeling on my ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has launched a new tool to identify prime ruffed grouse recovery areas for groups working to restore habitat for Pennsylvania’s state bird, which has experienced a ...

DENVER — Some governors in the U.S. West say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a beleaguered bird scattered across their region. The ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Interior Department said Tuesday it won't propose federal protections for the greater sage grouse, a chicken-sized bird of the sagebrush that ranges from California to the ...