PIERRE, S.D. -- South Dakota's prairie grouse opener was a picture perfect day. Cool, a light overcast and just a slight breeze. The native grass pasture we were hiking showed good growth in the ...

The Game, Fish and Parks Commission has decided that no season will be held this fall because the bird's population has fallen in recent years in South Dakota and other states. In South Dakota, sage ...

Nearly 30,000 acres of private land in northwestern South Dakota will be open to public hunting and recreation through Pheasants Forever's PATH program. This addition brings the total PATH acreage in ...

When sharp-tailed grouse and Hungarian partridge seasons open Sept. 12, hunters should expect to see fewer birds in the field when compared to the last several years, according to Aaron Robinson, ...

Drought in 2021 has impacted grouse populations in North Dakota, according to newly released spring survey results from the state Game and Fish Department. Statewide, 2,639 sharp-tailed grouse were ...

With the sharptail grouse season opening in North Dakota in just a couple of weeks it seems an appropriate time for this story from my file of Meals –To Be Forgotten. I was hunting southwest of Mandan ...

A Wyoming Game and Fish biologist spotted the first sage grouse/sharp-tailed grouse hybrid in Wyoming since 1979. Both grouse species are native to Wyoming and Crook County, where the hybrid was ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - The grouse and partridge hunting seasons open Sept. 13. In this week’s segment of North Dakota Outdoors, Mike Anderson tells us what hunters can expect this fall. Every spring, ...

Spring counts of sharp-tailed grouse in North Dakota were down 13% statewide from 2024, and it appears production wasn’t good enough to offset the losses. According to Jesse Kolar, upland game ...

In this week’s segment of “North Dakota Outdoors,” host Mike Anderson takes us to a sharp-tailed grouse lek, where these native birds are displaying during their annual spring mating rituals. Joining ...

May 3—BISMARCK — North Dakota upland game hunters shot more pheasants and sharp-tailed grouse in 2024 than the previous year, while the gray partridge harvest was similar to 2023, the Game and Fish ...

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 ...