When I was 12 years old, friends and I went exploring the woods around Campbell Airstrip Road, now Bicentennial Park. The foothills of the Chugach Range rose above us toward Near Point, and Wolverine, ...

ST. PAUL -- Spruce grouse hunters in northern Minnesota’s boreal forests can help with a genetics research project being conducted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in partnership with ...

Study will track population dynamics of little-known species to see if forest fragmentation and climate change are pushing them out of Minnesota. A male spruce grouse standing still, which they do ...

DULUTH, Minn.-The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow, spruce grouse poop in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- In November, an intrepid local hiker blundered into spruce grouse along the Tieton River in the Cascades west of Yakima. Other Yakima-area birders followed in his footsteps and were ...

A poster child for the Northern Forest, the spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is one of the rarest birds in Vermont. Not only does the species depend on a relatively small patch of lowland spruce ...

New Hampshire has two species of grouse. You’re probably familiar with the ruffed grouse; it lives in woodlands throughout the state. But there’s another grouse found in the Granite State that few ...

Perched on a bough along the trail, the spruce hen did what spruce hens do best. She remained stone-still, allowing her cryptic camouflage to blend in with the mottled sunlight pecking through the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to trek across the north woods later this winter and count grouse poop in the snow. The spruce grouse may be the Rodney ...