I am no stranger to getting up pre-dawn, stumbling around in the dark and finding remote locations that I have never been to before. So, it was “just another day at the office” when I recently went to ...

Sage grouse, which put on one of nature's great performances, are steadily in decline It was a few minutes after dawn on a frigid morning in March almost 15 years ago that I discovered that sage ...

DANBURY - Pink and orange light bled across the eastern horizon and heralded dawn April 16 across northwestern Wisconsin. And on a flat, grassy half-acre in northern Burnett County something else also ...

Sharp-tailed grouse are beginning their spring courtship dances at Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge. An observation blind near the dancing ground provides an opportunity to witness this ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A strange drumming sound filled the pre-dawn dark on the rolling prairie at Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The sound, about 10 miles north of the city Tuesday, was coming ...

About this time of year, I start seeing news articles and Facebook posts about sage-grouse. This species garners a lot of attention during spring because of its spectacular breeding displays on ...

As we bear-crawled toward the crest of the low ridge, a buzzing and clicking moved through the early morning air. “When’s the last time you bear-crawled?” Summit Daily photographer Mark Fox asked, as ...

Then it doesn’t look good at all. Especially when one considers the needs of the sagebrush’s emblematic bird, the sage grouse. Here, on a flat near Tomichi Creek, biologist Jessica Young examines a ...

Mar. 31—The public is invited to observe the morning dancing ritual of the sharp-tailed grouse on the prairies of Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge. The active grouse "lek" or "dancing grounds" allow ...

Dusky grouse are effectively camouflaged and cryptic much of the year, but when it comes to the spring mating season, the males are bright and bold In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis ...