By Joel Schnell for ruffedgrouseminnesota.com Excellent snow, excellent trails. This year is the best touring of the grouse woods in winter in ages. Those black spruce swamps, so impenetrable in fall are now our highways. It’s an excellent way to travel the grouse woods. Here’s a few photos from the trail. By Joel Schnell Posted ...
By Joel Schnell for Ruffed Grouse Minnesota The grouse hunter’s path is long and winding. We all learn and grow with our prowess of pursuing the most challenging game bird. My path started as a youngster hunting with my Dad and brothers. Not sure if I even knew what a grouse looked like back then, ...
By Joel Schnell for Ruffedgrouseminnesota.com Traveling the backroads of grouse country, we catch a glimpse of the old working buildings of the Northwoods. The barns, sheds, chicken coops and farm houses tucked down an overgrown driveway edged with lilacs. In their day, a family scratched out a living in the woods and fields with daily ...
When building my own hunting cabin, I wanted a low maintenance structure, and one that can be built on a site off the grid. We’ve all been in the hunting shack with the tilted floors and crooked door frames like the fun house at the fair. I didn’t want to spend my free time up ...
It’s been a busy spring. I had a Woodland Stewardship Plan for sustainable management of the land written and enrolled with the MN DNR. It comes with a number of benefits including property tax savings. The cost of hiring a certified forester to write the plan was three-quarters paid for by the state. Designing a management ...
