ST. PAUL – Friday, Aug. 18, is the deadline to apply for Minnesota’s special youth deer hunts and the northwest Minnesota prairie chicken season, the Department of Natural Resources said in a reminder ...

ST. PAUL – Hunters can apply through Friday, Aug. 15, to be chosen for one of 125 permits for the 2025 Minnesota prairie chicken hunting season, the Department of Natural Resources said in a news ...

Jul. 21—ST. PAUL — Hunters can apply through Friday, Aug. 19, to be chosen for one of 125 permits available for this year's Minnesota prairie chicken hunting season. The nine-day prairie chicken ...

Minnesota's prairie chicken population now stands at about 3,000 breeding birds in the spring and 6,000 birds in the fall. Historically, the prairie chickens were numerous in Minnesota. Records show ...

Prairie chickens will be fair game to Minnesota hunters this autumn for the first time in more than 60 years, a move the state's Department of Natural Resources hopes eventually will lead to more ...

Hunters can apply now to be included in a lottery for one of 126 permits available for the 2016 Minnesota prairie chicken season. Applications are available wherever Minnesota hunting and fishing ...

Aug. 2—The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will allow sharp-tailed grouse hunting in Grand Forks County north of U.S. Highway 2 this fall, an area that has traditionally been closed to sharptail ...

Kansas boasts some of the best upland bird populations in the world. In fact, the largest concentrations of both lesser and greater prairie chickens are found in Kansas. Bobwhite quail still thrive ...

When Thayne Smith settled into a hiding place recently at the edge of a crop field in north-central Kansas, he felt as though he had traveled back in time. Like a scene from the past, the sky was ...

AUSTIN — The director of the Texas state agency in charge of wildlife conservation is not happy with its federal counterpart's decision to list the lesser prairie-chicken as endangered or threatened ...