Healthy young forests provide multiple benefits to ruffed grouse. Forests less than 20 years old offer abundant food in all seasons, protection from predators and safe spaces during severe weather.

With that in mind, here's how Simon Hopkinson cooks his roast grouse – and don't forget the game crumble and bread sauce either. Firstly, tether the bird's legs by skewering a wooden toothpick through ...

Named for its favorite food, sagebrush, the greater sage grouse also eats plant buds and insects. Mating season, which runs from March through May, is centered around the lek, a courtship behavior ...

And this was abundantly clear to me the other day while I sat in a tiny chair blind, in the dark, waiting for the sun to come up and for a ruffed grouse to enter the habitat that lay before me.