Upland bird hunting in northwest Montana for mountain grouse: dusky, ruffed and Franklin’s. Nesting season in Region 1 was dry and unseasonably cool this spring, which likely was favorable for nest ...

In Montana, upland game birds consist of sage and sharp-tailed grouse, blue, ruffed and Franklin's grouse, pheasants, Hungarian (gray) partridge and wild turkeys. Most upland game bird seasons begin ...

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish and Native Ecosystems Council filed a federal lawsuit last week to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx ...

1 of 11 — Bryan Ulring (left), ranch hand Graham Fulton (right) and Nature Conservancy ecologist Nathan Korb (center) install a pipe on a new well dug for the cattle Ulring manages for J Bar L Ranch.

Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian provinces before European settlement in the 1800s. But since that time, ...

A mild winter in the plains and a heavy snowpack in the mountains would typically mean a promising upland game bird season in Montana. Yet a cold, wet spring that coincided with the peak hatch period ...

Summer has one last hurrah this Labor Day weekend, and then we'll slowly drift into autumn. Both Wyoming and Montana have early bird seasons that start Sept. 1 for mountain grouse and mourning doves.