Last week, the Trump administration rolled back protections for the embattled greater sage grouse, an iconic bird that has become a symbol of the struggle over how to balance extractive land use and ...

The efforts to protect the greater sage grouse habitat in the West can, at times, resemble the birds’ famous mating dance, taking two steps forward and one step back. In recent months, a two-steps ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air was ...

Mike Courtney gave Interior Secretary Sally Jewell a tutorial on sage grouse, cheatgrass and fire last October as he guided her on a short hike in the South Hills near Twin Falls. After gathering ...

That for some people a ruffed grouse is just another bird of the forest, or perhaps dinner on a plate, while for others it is an object of mystery and adoration, is never more evident than during the ...

Reporting from Washington — The Interior Department declared Friday that an iconic Western bird deserves federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, but declined to offer that protection ...

Successful efforts to keep a bird that lives only along the Nevada-California line off the Endangered Species List could serve as an example of what needs to happen across much of the West to protect ...

I haven’t done a heck of a lot of grouse hunting. Enough, now and then. Around the Mohawk Valley sometimes, and we used to take a few days every February down to our place in Steuben County to go ...

For the fourth year in a row, North Dakota will not hold a sage grouse hunting season in 2011. This was pretty much a certainty after State Game and Fish Department biologists counted a record low ...

It is true that few sporting endeavors are more physically challenging than busting through thick stands of aspen, oak, ash and gray dogwood, while following a good dog in search of ruffed grouse.