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Travis Thompson is a lifelong Floridian outdoorsman who serves as the Executive Director of All Florida. This conservation group’s focus is to “develop a coalition of advocates and artists, hunters and hikers, fishermen and families, to ensure that Florida’s future is wild and wonderful.” During today’s discussion, Travis talks about the work All Florida is doing on the ground in order to carry out that mission statement. Of course, we also get into a bunch of other fun outdoor content pertaining to the Sunshine State. Highlights include:

  • Florida carries out first black bear hunt in a decade
  • Why did the hunt go away after one year in 2015?
  • Does he think the 2025 hunt was a success statistically?
  • The anti-hunter’s impact on tag allocation (silver lining here)
  • Big snook fishing
  • What is a night of invasive python hunting really like?
  • Little whitetails
  • How was All Florida founded?
  • Fake conservation organizations
  • Osceola turkeys
  • Running Florida’s largest duck hunting club and their rich waterfowling tradition
  • Will the black bear hunt be back in 2026?