The failed Senate amendment would have re-hired thousands of federal public land workers laid off during a mass firing on Valentine’s Day weekend
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
With an official order from the new Secretary of the Interior to review all National Monuments dating back to Theodore Roosevelt, we’re taking a fresh look at the 119-year-old public-land protection””and what it means for hunters and anglers
We dug deep into the Boone & Crockett archives and rounded up 20 legendary bucks with some of the wildest racks you’ve ever seen
Falling in line with other states across the West, Montana legislators are proposing new rules and license fees for shed hunters in the Big Sky State
Codey Redd spent four seasons obsessing over the 18-point buck before finally bringing it down during a late-December Ohio gun hunt
“They kept coming, and we just couldn’t stop shooting.”
Why sit inside this winter when you could be netting trophy bass on one of the best lakes in the country?
Here’s what three prominent conservation groups are saying about it
With more bruins showing up in urban areas, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission is working up a proposal for the state’s first bear hunt in a decade
The bill would remove the President’s ability to designate and expand national monuments on federal land
