“The lovely Mount Pinos sooty grouse could easily go extinct without immediate federal protection,” said Brian Segee of the Center for Biological Diversity. Environmentalists today petitioned the Fish ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Its name is a bit deceiving, though no more so than its previous moniker. Its "song" is less musical than it is percussive. And you'd have to travel miles from the sweltering August ...

OJAI, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for California’s Mount Pinos sooty grouse.

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...

Washington is a rare bird for wingshooters looking to bag a “slam.” Forest grouse hunters recognize Washington as the only state that offers a four-bird slam, which was born in 2006 when the blue ...

Many Montanans are devoted to the blue grouse. Some have enjoyed memorable hunting experiences, while others recall Sunday meals around a cast-iron roaster of savory grouse breasts smothered in ...

In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis and Clark and guided by Sacagawea pushed through the Rocky Mountains, they found and described dusky grouse, Dendragapus obscurus. In the Cascade ...

Pingpong is fun as long as you’re not the ball. I stopped the truck, leaned my head out the window and heard the sound of a sooty grouse. Step 1 complete. Step 2 was to determine the direction. I ...