DULUTH — A warm and dry summer may not have been the best thing for your scorched-brown lawn, but it was probably great news for little ruffed grouse chicks and the people who like to hunt them when ...

Grouse and the cover they live in shape grouse guns. Heavy brush demands a light, compact gun that can be carried in one hand while the other fends off branches. Limited visibility dictates open ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

To coincide with the beginning of this year’s bow hunting season, the forest grouse opener was set back two days to Aug. 30. This is, in large part, because although there are avid grouse-hunting ...

NORTH OF DULUTH -- Maria Jacenko is a rare commodity. At a time when the number of ruffed grouse hunters is declining in Minnesota, Jacenko is just plunging into the popples. Duluth's Jacenko, 45, ...

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 ...