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As dawns turn cooler and signals frosty mornings on the way, my English setters are almost as excited as I am.  For me the ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation organizations submitted comments today blasting the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s draft amendment for 77 land-use plans across the western United States intended to protect ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

Ruffed grouse hunting grew up in 19th century New England, so naturally it can be a bit of a prude. So genteel in certain circles, so neatly wrapped in tradition and style, it must seem to some ...

When Bill Hartline bought 50 acres of forested land outside Muncy, Pennsylvania, he was looking for a bit of solitude and a place to eventually build a new home in retirement. But during a camping ...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A record-low number of male sage grouse counted on strutting grounds in North Dakota this spring has prompted state biologists to call for a closure of this year's hunting season.

GREEN RIVER - To date, there's been almost no success in the private breeding of Western sage grouse for hunting on commercial bird farms. Nor has anybody really shown an interest in doing so in ...

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 ...

Columnist Bill Danielson reflects on childhood gifts, early scientific inspirations, and unforgettable encounters with ruffed ...

JACKSON — Jordan Meagher-Ramsey tranquilly molded a bird head out of clay as Carson Huhn used deafening power tools to cut metal stakes. Emerson Hawkins, River Ryan and Connor McCarter, meanwhile, ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse” and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse ...