Wednesday marked the opening of several hunting seasons in Wyoming. The season is now open for mountain grouse (blue and ruffed), mourning doves, squirrels, cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares. I ...

Ruffed grouse are found around riparian areas and hardwood forests, while blue grouse favor evergreen forests and spruce grouse “are tied to lodgepole pine,” said Mick Cope, state game bird manager.

Courtest of the Outdoor News Group By Rich Landers The Spokesman-Review Grouse hunters peg the blame on non-native wild turkeys. While turkeys have boomed in recent decades, native forest grouse have ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse”and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse.