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.

The grouse hunting season is off to a slower start this year throughout the Superior National Forest and the northeastern ...

CO Jamus Veit (Bemidji #1) spent the week checking grouse, squirrel, and archery deer hunters. He conducted a ...

A father-and-son grouse hunting trip in northern Minnesota in 1999 has grown into an annual gathering of friends.

Sep. 6—Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is a tricky business, at best, because the forest birds aren't readily visible along roadsides or open terrain most of the year. Instead, ...

CO Tony Elwell (Cloquet) monitored archery deer and waterfowl hunting. Waterfowl activity was low. Most local birds have ...

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 ...

CO Bobby Stringer (Thief River Falls West) reports an increase in deer movement throughout the district as the firearms ...

The ruffed grouse season opens in mid-September and does not end until sunset on New Year’s Eve, but few hunters pursue grouse in November and December. In fact, during the 30-plus years I have hunted ...

Deer hunters often blame wolves for a lack of northern Minnesota whitetails. But wolf abundance, like deer abundance, and ...

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 ...