On Monday, House Republicans included a provision in their fiscal 2026 spending bill for the Interior Department and EPA that ...

Defenders of Wildlife strongly condemns the House Appropriations Committee’s proposed Interior and Environment spending bill for Fiscal Year 2026 which includes numerous poison pill policy riders that ...

Male ruffed grouse create a low drumbeat in spring to attract mates and challenge rivals. The sound can carry a quarter mile.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has released data from its annual spring survey of ruffed grouse, showing a slight decrease from 2024. Numbers, however, are still significantly up from ...

Unless grouse migrate into North Dakota from neighboring states, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s home state will be the ...

Note: Sample sizes in the Driftless priority area were low, and thus, wide percentage swings are likely to occur from year to year. Recent research has indicated that 10-year population cycles are ...

Some environmentalists thought that federal wildlife officials made a serious mistake when they decided, in 2015, not to list the Greater Sage-Grouse as threatened or endangered under the Endangered ...

Simple erosion-control technique named after scientist Bill Zeedyk fortifies ecologically valuable riparian zones all around the western U.S.

From our calendar to yours comes this carefully considered agenda of cool things we are doing, wishing we could do, or ...

Moderate cattle grazing on public lands does not reduce sage-grouse nest success, according to a newly published 10-year University of Idaho study. The findings suggest sage-grouse and cows can ...

The University of Idaho recently released the finalized results of their 10-year study looking into the impacts of grazing on greater sage grouse populations. The study concluded that cattle grazing ...

Before decisions were made, ranchers had been grazing sage grouse nesting areas with cattle and sheep for years, and sage grouse numbers were high. There are, of course, other factors involved, but ...