The CPW-approved payments will nearly break the state’s wolf depredation budget
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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
In February 2025, thousands of people lost their careers with public land agencies across the country. Here’s what three former employees are dealing with and how they think the unprecedented mass firings will impact public lands moving forward
An investigation by Texas Game Wardens led to more than 1,000 charges for illegal deer breeding, smuggling, poaching, and trapping of wild whitetails for release ahead of canned hunts
A narrowly passed ballot initiative has brought 25 wolves from Oregon and Canada onto Colorado’s Western Slope. Now opponents of the fraught wolf program are crafting a ballot measure of their own
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
Japanese yew is an ornamental yard plant known for killing off deer and elk in winter
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
