When one reads the article by Hal Clifford in High Country News regarding cattlemen and sage grouse (HCN, 2/4/02: Last dance for the sage grouse?), it is very obvious that the ranchers in the realm of ...

Another index, Smith said, is the number of wings collected this fall from birds harvested by hunters — a figure then used to calculate how many baby grouse were born that year. For 2009, the ratio ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- Mountain Home rancher Steve Damele is the kind of cattleman who doesn't mince words when talking about threatened species on his land. But he only had one answer when asked if his ...

Michigan is No. 1 in the U.S. for grouse and woodcock hunters, and hunters contribute a percentage of the cost of each shotgun shell and firearm to maintaining the habitat of these birds. Both birds ...