GRAND FORKS — A common theme emerged this week when I talked with wildlife managers in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota about wildlife and how they’re faring this winter. There’s been a noticeable ...

At the risk of jinxing it, this is shaping up to be a very good fall if you’re an upland game bird hunter. Whether sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge or ruffed grouse, the outlook is optimistic ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says results from recently completed counts indicate sharp-tailed grouse and Hungarian partridge numbers are significantly lower than a year ago. Data from ...

Saturday is the season-opener for hunting of sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse in North Dakota. Shooting hours are half an hour before sunrise to sunset. Sharptails, ruffed ...

Southern Minnesota’s upland hunters fall into three distinct categories: Casual bird chasers who may only hit fields one weekend a season, semi-serious hunters who include several trips to pheasant ...

Statistics from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s spring sharp-tailed grouse census showed a 9 percent increase in the number of male grouse counted on their spring dancing grounds, or leks, ...

LA GRANDE — The upland game bird hunting season starts a week or so later than usual, but conditions should be worth the wait for hunters. According to forecasts from Oregon Department of Fish and ...

SOME PEOPLE buy a sports car when they reach a certain age. I went hunting on New Year’s Day. That wasn’t a radical life change, as I hunt a lot of days, but part of the deal I’d made long ago with my ...

While the “other” species of upland game might always be in the shadow of the pheasant, hunting for grouse and partridge can offer fast-paced action a month in advance of the state’s pheasant opener.

An Idaho hunter discovered an unusual bird while on a hunting trip on Oct. 7 in the Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area near Cambridge. Tim Franks, of Mountain Home, was upland bird hunting — ...

STEELE, N.D. -- The blast from Steve Brewer's shotgun grabbed my attention. He was 150 yards away, at the other end of the grassy pocket we were hunting. I looked up just in time to see his third ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota hunters should expect similar to higher numbers of sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse this hunting season compared to 2014. That’s according ...