On a recent trip to northern Minnesota for the annual raptor migration, a good friend and licensed raptor bander captured a juvenile northern goshawk as part of his ongoing research project. I had ...

A hunter with a blaze orange cap and a shotgun keeps an eye on a dog bounding through the underbrush, trailing the scent of grouse. Bright yellow aspen leaves frame the trail. It’s a common ...

An experienced hunter can often predict from evidence on these maps whether an area is likely to hold the game he seeks. In ...

For example, grouse hunting in northern Minnesota, our crew was somewhat unfamiliar with the specific area we were staying among the vast national forest of the region. So we used “young aspen ...