First bird down for Cooper Gallant 👊

Five years on the Elite Series and nearly a literal ton of fish hauled to the scales (1,950 lbs and change). Not his first rodeo just his first turkey. Congrats, Cooper. ...

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We’re sending you and a friend to Nashville for an exclusive Race Weekend experience in partnership with 23XI Racing, with access to 23XI’s Takeover at Chief’s, Eric Church’s famous bar, and Nashville’s Superspeedway on Sunday May 31st, for the chance to watch rising star Corey Heim take on Nashville—live.

Here’s what you’ll get:
🏁 VIP 23XI Race Weekend experience for 2 at Nashville Superspeedway race

🎫 2 tickets to the Field & Stream lounge at the 23XI Takeover at Chief’s on Broadway

🏨 3-night stay in Nashville

💵 $1,000 travel stipend

💵 $200 in F&S gear

👉 F&S 1871 Club Premium Membership

How to win:
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LET’S GO RACING 🤝 ...

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The Fight Continues…
Congress voted to fast track a foreign mine in the headwaters of America’s most visited Wilderness Area. But the long-running fight to protect the Boundary Waters is far from over. In the aftermath of the Senate’s vote, the Executive Director of Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters, Lukas Leaf, expects to see expedited federal permits for the mine coming down from the Trump Administration. But mine construction is years away no matter how you slice it, he says.

There will almost certainly be a flurry of lawsuits challenging the legality of using the Congressional Review Act to overturn the 20-year mining moratorium. Those suits are likely to appear before either the US District Court for the District of Columbia or the US District Court for the District of Minnesota. And there are critical state-level hurdles that Antofagasta must clear. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will have to approve and issue its own permits, for example, and those could be harder to come by.

Minnesota has powerful tools for protecting clean water, Pete Marshall of the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness told the Minnesota Post in an April 22 article. He’s advocating for an “opt-out provision” from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that he says could stop mine development before it begins.

Read the full story by @travishallmedia // 🔗 in story.
Photos by @jakedahlke & @hansski43 ...

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There’s a fine line between fishing and doing absolutely nothing… and we’re experts at both.

Archival Project // @fieldandstream x @yuenglingbeer ...

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A hiker asked his peers to identify these tracks after hiking a remote stretch of West Coast Trail.

“Pocket knife is 5 inches for scale. I hiked in, ate lunch at a lookout, and on the way out saw this print facing back toward where I’d been sitting. Didn’t see it on the way in. No dogs allowed on this trail, and the nearest place they’re allowed is about 5.5 miles away with ladders in between. My guess is cougar, but the claws are throwing me off. Also looks like two different sizes—mother and cub?”

The internet acted accordingly… one camp started triaging apex predators, another landed on “probably just a big dog breaking the rules,” and then one absolute menace drops a photo of his lab and his cat, both on leashes, essentially adding “not saying it was me… but…”

Thread derailed. No ID confirmed. One hiker’s still wondering what followed him. ...

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Endgame used to be a wall mount 👀

In comes Travis Luther, a born-and-raised Floridian and self-taught artist who got his start painting fish after working nighttime hospital shifts. Today, his work runs the gamut: detailed 2-D paintings, bold 3-D pieces, and hand-painted @yeti coolers.

If you’ve got a piece from Luther, he loves seeing it out in the wild. Tag #travislutherart on any/all content of pieces you’ve collected. ...

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The US Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public land across the country, including some of the best hunting and fishing destinations in the world. The work requires a robust network of employees, offices, and administrative sites. But in late March, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to eliminate all of the agency’s nine regional hubs. The move will also shutter 57 ecological research stations in 33 states.

The plan, which the USDA called “common sense forest management” in a recent press release, has sparked a firestorm of criticism with public land advocates calling it a coordinated attempt to dismantle the storied agency. They argue that the elimination of USFS’s regional model—which dates back to the early 1900s…

Comment “USDA” & we’ll DM you the full story by @travishallmedia ...

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