Sep. 13—The season of long walks with a shotgun is upon us. Washington's forest grouse hunting season begins Sunday, drawing hunters into the woods with dreams of wingbeats. Some hunters view their ...

SPOKANE, Wash.– Attention forest grouse hunters, this years’ season is delayed in Washington. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said instead of starting on Sept. 1 like usual, it would ...

Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys. His dog is a Chesapeake and he shoots a ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...

It’s 2 a.m., the middle of a cold March night in southern Oregon, and for five hours Kourtney Stonehouse ’08 has been tromping over rugged, muddy terrain, net at the ready. She stays on the heels of a ...

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 ...

In a banner season for ruffs, with an old dog out in front, Bayfield County forester Mike Amman shows what makes great grouse ground. Mike Amman and his Weimaraner pointer, Sigg, work their way ...