While Minnesota offers a wide variety of hunting experiences, ruffed grouse is the only game bird that Minnesota can boast as being the premiere destination hunting state in which to pursue them.

Sharp-tailed grouse hunters in Minnesota and North Dakota are being asked to send in wing samples from harvested birds. The samples will go through DNA analysis and be used to evaluate the genetic ...

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

From the column: "Regrettably, we have been reminded once again that our public land estate requires constant vigilance and ...

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Natalie Krebs I called in vests from all the major manufacturers I could get ahold of, and then, very simply, I started hunting in them. I hunted grouse and woodcock in Wisconsin. Pheasants in my home ...

This photo shows a timber stand improvement project coordinated by the Ruffed Grouse Society to open up the canopy and improve wildlife habitat in the Driftless Region. (Photo courtesy of RGS) Hunters ...

Traditional and compound bow hunters may soon be outnumbered in Minnesota by crossbow hunters for deer if the Legislature renews a law allowing widespread use of crossbows in the coming fall season.

Even into the depths of winter after other hunting seasons have passed, there is still time to hunt gray and fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit, jack-rabbit and snowshoe hare in a season that runs ...

I’m sticking with Dad.” Another reader sided with my cousin: “This 87-year-old grew up hunting ruffed grouse around my home town of Milaca (Minnesota). Down there, we referred to that wily ...

Whitetail hunters a year ago took 172,000 deer across all seasons for a 32% success rate, and Keller said lower deer numbers in northern Minnesota likely will keep statewide harvest lower again in ...