Nearly half-a-million acres of BLM and US Forest Service land in Utah and Nevada could be sold off for good without any input from the public
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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
The Trump administration’s budget outline for 2026 would defund a revered conservation program while stripping billions from the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and other public land agencies
A group of Idaho hunters is calling for all-out bans on controversial forms of high-tech hunting gear
Two Idaho men are accused of fulfilling taxidermy orders for dozens of illegally killed big game animals
A recently passed bill in the Montana legislature aims to increase the base license fee for out-of-state hunters by more than 500 percent
Seventeen-year-old Theo Blevins shot the giant buck during an evening youth hunt on his home property in northern Indiana
The one-year-old rule would have put wild game conservation on a level playing field with grazing and resource extraction on public lands throughout the West
The incident occurred on a brushy hillside in north-central Montana
The WildturkeyDNA project will analyze hunter-harvested birds from across the country to gain a better understanding of the iconic game species
Conservationists are wondering how the US Fish and Wildlife Service will be able to sign off on annual waterfowl seasons without the critical resources it needs to count ducks across the flyways
