The USDA plans to slash the Forest Service’s research program by more than 70 percent and do away with its century-old regional structure
Author: Travis Hall
Travis Hall
Travis is Field & Stream's full-time associate editor. He covers breaking outdoor news and pressing conservation issues. Highlights Education Hall graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2012. His outdoor education began at age three in pursuit of stripper-pit panfish, and it continues to progress on a near daily basis. Experience Hall lives with his wife and two young sons in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley where he’s cutting his teeth on the finer points of elk, mule deer, and mountain grouse hunting. He grew up hunting whitetails and wild turkeys on reclaimed coal country in southern Indiana. F&S Lightening Round Favorite Place to Fish: Any fishing access site along the Bitterroot River; Favorite Critter to Hunt: Rut-crazed whitetails; Bucket List Adventure: September elk in Montana’s Big Snowy Mountains; Most Prized Piece of Gear: Savage Lightweight Hunter chambered in .308; All-Time Favorite F&S Story: “F&S Classics: The Day Bear Died,” by Hal Herring Notable Work
Ryder Humphries caught the massive bull trout in a pristine river near Banff, Canada
Fans of the renowned fishery are raising red flags over fast-moving development plans for its headwaters and its lower stretches
Jakob Mackey’s giant grass carp beat a previous line-class world record by nearly 20 pounds
Silas Turner’s longnose gar beat the previous state record by a full 12 ounces
A new Public Lands Order has troubling implications for an iconic public-land hunting-and-fishing destination in Alaska
Darren Nunley’s largemouth weighed well over 15 pounds, besting a state record set back in 2015
The incident has sparked concerns about the potential spread of Chronic Wasting Disease from domesticated big game into wild deer and elk herds in Idaho
The bill would green-light a foreign mining operation upstream of an iconic Wilderness Area despite widespread public opposition
The father of Mossy Oak founder Toxey Haas, “Mr. Fox” played a key role in the resurgence of wild turkeys and turkey hunting in the Southeast
