GROUSE POPULARITY RISING.(Sports)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | July 30, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: Ed Dentry

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

A new upland hunting tradition has developed in Colorado in recent years. Instead of waiting for pheasant season to open in November, or biding time in fragrant sage hills in September, more hunters have taken to casting their bird dogs in mountain climes where blue grouse and mountain sharp-tailed grouse live.

Some go without dogs. A few hardies even go to extremes, celebrating early autumn in rarified crags inhabited by white-tailed ptarmigan.

Only a couple of decades ago, convention dictated ...

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