A provision in the federal budget includes mandatory oil and gas drilling projects for up to 1.6 million acres of public hunting and fishing grounds in Alaska
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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
A complete list of all 49 state-record bluegills. Sorry, Alaska…
The Utah senator’s wildly unpopular proposal would have forced the sale of up to 1.2 million acres of public land in 11 western states
After telling outraged hunters that he was listening to their concerns, the Utah senator is doubling down on plans to sell off a large amount of federally managed public land in the West
Utah Senator Mike Lee has introduced an amended version of his public-land sell-off plan. But it still mandates the sale more than 1 million acres of public land—Here’s what you can do about it
The Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the lawmaker’s proposal to sell 2 to 3 million acres of public land is invalid. Lee, however, is vowing to reintroduce a modified version
Hunting advocacy group Hunter Nation says the Utah Senator will do the right thing, but many remain unconvinced and insist that the provision must be stripped from the budget bill altogether
Recent tweaks to the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee’s plan to sell public lands could make nearly 40 percent of the nation’s federally managed public lands eligible for sell-offs to private interests
An interactive map from the Wilderness Society highlights the tracts of US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands that could go up for sale if the Senate’s version of the budget bill passes
Last month, hunters and anglers defeated a proposal in the House budget bill to sell off a half-million acres of public land. Now it’s back in the Senate version””with six times the amount of land at stake
