This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
ADCNR's Bear, Mountain Lion, and Ruffed Grouse page states flatly "No Open Season" with no year label, indicating a standing closure rather than a cycle-specific determination. Historic range is the mountainous northeastern counties; population considered functionally very sparse.
Alabama sits at the extreme southern edge of ruffed grouse range, and the regulation already reflects that the season is closed statewide ("No Open Season"). ADCNR's own species profile states the bird was once found as far south as the William B. Bankhead National Forest but is now primarily restricted to the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau in northeast Alabama, where it is rare and very local. Independent birding-trail documentation narrows that further to a single named site: Skyline Wildlife Management Area in Jackson County, described as home to the state's only population of ruffed grouse. This is a closed season with a range that has collapsed to a single site rather than a still-huntable multi-region range.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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