This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Occurs in the Nulhegan Basin (near Moose and Yellow Bogs, Conte National Wildlife Refuge), Wenlock WMA, Victory Basin WMA, and Victory State Forest. Killing or wounding a spruce grouse is a violation of the Vermont Endangered Species Act; any spruce grouse killed by a hunter must be reported to a game warden. VFWD maintains a dedicated 'Ruffed Grouse or Spruce Grouse?' identification page (PRIMARY, structural confirmation) to help ruffed grouse hunters avoid this; the specific endangered-species-act legal framing itself was captured from eRegulations (SECONDARY).
Protected under the VT Endangered Species Act, no hunting. An active VFWD survey route in the 24-square-mile Nulhegan Basin has run since 1988 (population estimated 100-300 birds), continuing despite the closure -- a 'monitoring continues despite closure' case -- but no discrete annual published report was found.