by Ryan Sparks Knowing how to use an entire bird in the kitchen is an essential skill for any grouse hunter. Breast meat gets all the attention, but knowing how […]
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The Appalachian Grouse Diet – What Do the Birds Eat and Why?
by Nick Biemiller | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Southern Appalachians The Southern Appalachians are the southernmost extent of the ruffed grouse’s range in the Eastern United States. […]
Featured Habitat Project – Downeast Lakes Land Trust Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project
by Todd Waldron | RGS & AWS Forest Conservation Director – Northeast Did you know that, according to the Land Trust Alliance, there are 506 community-based and regionally active land […]
Opening Weekend, Lake States Grouse
Written By: Randy Lawrence. Junction City, OH It felt more like driving the getaway rig for a jailbreak than leaving for a hunting trip. I would pull into the Honda […]
Go North Young Man!
Written By: Herb Evert. Cottage Grove, WI Camped on the bank of the Peshtigo river in far northeastern Wisconsin, that stream of deceitfully quiet water between stretches of tumbling rapids, […]
Sunrise over Sagebrush
Written By: Seth Owens. Grand Forks, ND I’m often frustrated by that prehistoric, instinctual, fight-or-flight response that all humans have in the 21st century. Not because it was crucial to […]
Beyond the Birds – How Habitat Benefits Us All
by Greg Hoch The conservation community does a lot of habitat work that benefits wildlife. That wildlife may be prairie grouse in grasslands, ducks in wetlands or ruffed grouse and […]
The First Time I Went Ruffed Grouse Hunting
Written by: George Skakel. Staples, MN Within a year of our wedding, 35 years ago, my new father-in-law, a man of some means, invited me to go Ruffed Grouse hunting […]
Henry
Written by: Scott Hill. Tecumseh, MI July 18th, 2001 was a very memorable day at the Hill house. Our setter Jazz along with my wife and two daughters delivered nine […]
The Night Of A Thousand Woodcock
Written by: James Falstad. Winthrop Harbor, IL THE HUNT On an early October Friday I snuck out of work a couple minutes early, loaded the dog and pointed the truck […]