DANBURY - Pink and orange light bled across the eastern horizon and heralded dawn April 16 across northwestern Wisconsin. And on a flat, grassy half-acre in northern Burnett County something else also ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Monday that the hunting season for sharp-tailed grouse in east-central Minnesota will be closed this fall — and likely in future years — because ...

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 ...

MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will accept reservations for sharp-tailed grouse viewing blinds at Namekagon Barrens and Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. Viewing blinds at ...

Sharp-tailed grouse were back on their dancing ground in the middle of last week -- but their dancing was desultory -- perhaps because their feet were cold. The dancing ground, or lek, is snow-covered ...

Male sharp-tailed grouse vie for the attention of a female on their dancing grounds in central Grand Forks County on a recent chilly morning in March 2023. I mutter these words as I give the final tug ...

Wisconsin will host a sharp-tailed grouse hunting season this fall, the first since 2018. The decision to resume a hunt comes after four consecutive years of population increases of the ...

A high wind and snow traveling sideways had quieted most of the early birds in the moments before dawn. Still, there was a hooting sound coming from the tall, dead grass and scattered sagebrush. It ...