Trying to predict ruffed grouse hunting prospects is an inexact science at best, but based on drumming counts, at least, Minnesota’s breeding population was down from last year. In a news release, the ...

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, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — 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 ...

Minnesota's ruffed grouse spring drumming counts showed an average decline of 24 to 60 percent across the northeast survey region, which is the core of the state's grouse range, the Minnesota ...

SOMEWHERE UP NORTH, Minn. — Like so many big things, it started small, this fall tradition, a father and son from the Twin Cities area venturing to a friend’s place “Up North” to try their luck at ...

Nov. 8—ST. PAUL — With hundreds of thousands of hunters taking to Minnesota's fields and forests for the 2025 firearms deer season, the Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that safe hunts ...

Minnesotans chasing a cavalcade of seasonal colors often parade at this time of year from the Twin Cities to Duluth and from there farther north along the Lake Superior shoreline. Alternatively they ...

Here’s a look back at how the duck, pheasant, and ruffed grouse seasons went, based on several interviews with Minnesota DNR ...