For a healthy younger tree, the branching is upright and spreading. The buds and catkins of eastern hophornbeam are an important winter food source for the ruffed grouse bird, with the nuts being a ...

Courtesy U.S. Bureau of Land Management Sage grouse thrive in sagebrush-covered plains, like those found in Eastern Oregon. They now only occupy about half of their historic range. Despite their ...

Wild turkeys are strongly populated in the eastern and southern counties, and ruffed grouse are found in Ohio’s heavily forested regions.

Peering through a spotting scope in this remote section of eastern Oregon ... by rolling hills of sagebrush where 22 greater sage-grouse males performed their famed and elaborate mating rituals.

“Even in areas with no cattle, there are issues with grouse and horses,” Frey added. Wild horses on open range of the Wind River Reservation in rural Wyoming. Last year, the Eastern Shoshone ...

Spruce grouse are more common in eastern Canada. Here in the Granite State, the spruce grouse is truly a species living on the edge. Forest age and structure have created the ideal habitat for ...

Cattle and greater sage grouse seem to be getting along just fine in southeastern Montana, according to a recent Fish Wildlife and Parks study, and that’s a big deal. As sage grouse have been ...

Greater sage grouse — chicken-sized birds known for an elaborate mating ritual— were once found across much of the U.S. West. Their numbers plummeted in recent decades because of energy ...

Spring is especially exciting, with migrating birds returning and the opportunity to witness the sage grouse leks, one of my favorite sights to photograph. It is humbling to see the show the sage ...

Ruffed grouse drumming increased this spring in two of three priority areas and the species appears to be on the upward phase of its traditional 10-year population cycle in Wisconsin, according to ...