NORTHEASTERN MONTANA -- Morning comes early in sharptail camp. We slither out of our down cocoons into the heavy dew before dawn. A hunter wouldn't have to get out of the tent this early to hunt ...

For decades, a population of grouse in south‑central Wyoming and northwest Colorado has been identified as Columbian sharp‑tailed grouse, the same subspecies that can be found in far western Wyoming ...

Sep. 6—Spring counts of sharp-tailed grouse in North Dakota were down 13% statewide from 2024, and it appears production wasn't good enough to offset the losses. According to Jesse Kolar, upland game ...

BILLINGS – Finding a sharp-tailed grouse on its nest is no easy task, even when the hens are collared with tracking devices. Jason Hanlon found that out this spring as he attempted to locate 10 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Hunting season is just around the corner, but in parts of Minnesota, one bird will be off-limits. The sharp-tailed grouse population in east-central Minnesota has declined so ...

For the first time in seven years, Wisconsin may host a sharp-tailed grouse hunting season this fall. At least that's the recommendation of the Department of Natural Resources' Sharp-tailed Grouse ...

KETTLE RIVER, Minn. — This should be the time of year when sharp-tailed grouse do their dancing, the territorial mating ritual when males square off to bluff fight and females gather to watch. To the ...

The sharp-tailed grouse hunting season will remain closed in Wisconsin for 2024, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR.) The DNR said Tuesday that permits and applications ...

Sharp-tailed grouse numbers exploded when the region was first cleared, burned and farmed by European settlers a century ago — so much so that early settlers said the flocks in flight sometimes ...

Jul. 18—BISMARCK — Spring counts for two of North Dakota's grouse species — sharp-tailed grouse and sage grouse — were down from last year, but ruffed grouse numbers are up, the Game and Fish ...

When Tom Rusch first started working in the Tower area wildlife office 30-some years ago he would see sharp-tailed grouse at a half-dozen locations across his district. Each spring Rusch and other ...