I had a poor season, which is not especially unusual for me, but the majority of the guys with whom I kibitz about grouse hunting did, too.

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The Bureau of Land Management has released final greater sage-grouse habitat plans for eight states that will remove height benchmarks for perennial grasses, among other changes. The changes make ...

The Trump administration is planning on making more acres of public land available for energy and mineral development in eight Western states, a move worrying environmentalists watching for the ...

The government moves to make it easier to drill, mine and graze on 50 million acres of land in the West. By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration weakened protections on Monday for the vulnerable ...

Greater sage grouse (Bob Wick/BLM via Center for Biological Diversity). (CN) — The Trump administration on Monday released final land-use plans concerning imperiled sage grouse habitat across eight ...

NOW that deer season has ended, I can feel the stress of all those unfilled tags starting to fade. Deer hunting challenges both the mind and body, and when I take to the woods, I’m hunting with ...

Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving, and it has actually ...

Up close, the coloration of these feathers are exquisite. This female ruffed grouse approached Bill Danielson within arm's reach and remained very calm. Had she been alarmed, she would have raised the ...

As dawns turn cooler and signals frosty mornings on the way, my English setters are almost as excited as I am. For me the most precious time of the year because it means upland bird season. It’s been ...

Biologist Jack Hansen started up an ATV and drove through a dark sea of sagebrush just before dawn on a snowy morning in early April. This is what he does every spring morning to monitor about a dozen ...

Twenty-eight years is a long time to do anything, but that is how long I’ve been writing this column. As long as that might seem, I’ve been paying attention to nature (and specifically birds) for even ...