A new flock is taking over Ptarmigan Country Club. The club outside Fort Collins was purchased this month by Heritage Golf Group, a Virginia-based operator that expanded into Colorado two years ago.

No one has been killed. The most recent avalanche accident occurred Sunday, Dec. 22 at Ptarmigan Hill, according to a field report submitted to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

An early season report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center has found that 12 backcountry skiers and riders have ...

Additionally, populations have been introduced into high-alpine habitats outside the ptarmigan?s historical range, including in the Sierra Nevada in California, the Uinta Mountains in Utah, Pike?s ...

The smallest bird in the grouse family, the white-tailed ptarmigan is also one of the few animals that lives on alpine mountaintops throughout its entire life. Every part of this ptarmigan is adapted ...