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.
ADCNR/WFF runs no population survey or forecast program for ruffed grouse — confirmed absence, any year. Alabama has "No Open Season" for ruffed grouse per ADCNR's own regulations page; the species page describes it as rare and very local in the northeast corner of the state, sourced from a breeding-bird atlas, not a dedicated grouse survey.