You can find new grouse haunts just by keeping your ears open. Whenever you’re in the woods and especially in spring, listen for drumming grouse. The best time to ask permission to hunt grouse ...

“We had such good drumming counts,” said Charlie Tucker, DNR’s area wildlife manager at Red Lake WMA. “I was really ...

Memories boiled up. I love how shockingly loud grouse sound when busting from cover, how loud drumming on logs (think a gas lawnmower) sounds. I came to Illinois nearly 40 years ago, when there ...

Traditionally, spring drumming count surveys, in which wildlife managers follow set routes and listen for the sound male ruffed grouse make by beating their wings to attract a mate, have been the ...