Idaho Volunteers Tear it Up with on-the-Ground Projects
Idaho volunteers participated in three land stewardship projects this July, proving that RMEF’s force of dedicated volunteers continues to get things done on the ground. [...]
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New York, New Hampshire Events Get Creative to Combat Covid
RMEF banquets usually don’t look too different from one another, at least in basic format. But these are different times. This year, New York and [...]
RMEF Holds Elk Camp Online Auction
The spirit of Elk Camp was alive and well from afar through the Elk Camp Online Auction this year. RMEF’s national convention didn’t go forward [...]
It Wasn’t Hard to Social Distance at the South Dakota Rendezvous—Even from Bison
When you go to a RMEF rendezvous work project, you don’t expect to be joined by an enormous bull bison. However, if the work project [...]
Jacque & Bryan Stark Receive RMEF’s Highest Conservation Honor
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation bestowed the Wallace Fennell Pate Wildlife Conservation Award, its highest honor, upon Bryan and Jacque Stark of [...]
California Volunteers Provide Dependable Water Source for Tule Elk
A 70-year-old pond badly needed a facelift. As one of few wildlife water sources on the 35,554-acre Carrizo Plains Ecological Reserve, publicly-owned land available for [...]
RMEF’s First Post-COVID Shutdown Banquet a Success
Since March 14, 2020, RMEF hasn’t held a single banquet—until now. On June 13, the Selkirk Crest Chapter in Idaho was the first chapter to [...]
Online Auctions – a Bright Spot Amid Challenges
2020 has been one for the record books thus far! It seems that nothing can escape the grasps of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges [...]
Celebrating 36 years of volunteering for elk country
On May 14, 1984, four elk hunters in northwest Montana combined meager means with perseverance to form the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Today, along with [...]
Volunteers and Staff Restart Big Game Banquets with a Bang
After 11 weeks of no gatherings, RMEF returned to hosting events with a bang! We came out of the gate strong, thanks first and foremost, [...]
Congratulations to 2020 Outstanding Chapter Award Winners
Every one of the RMEF chapters does incredible work for elk country, and every year, RMEF recognizes some of the outstanding achievements of its chapters [...]
RMEF Creates Official Banquet Precaution Guidelines
For many RMEF supporters, volunteers and staff, banquets are an important time to gather together in celebration of all the hard work done throughout the [...]
Spring Sweepstakes Set New Records
Who wouldn’t want to be dreaming about chasing elk through New Mexico or making the perfect fly cast in Belize right about now? RMEF’s 2020 [...]
Volunteers Overcome Challenges in Weekend before Closures
By Heather Fraley On Monday, March 16th, RMEF halted banquets in accordance with CDC guidelines. In the final weekend before the closure (March 14th) RMEF [...]
Volunteers Help Arizona Elk Safely Cross Busy Highway
By Mark Holyoak Why did the elk cross the road? To get to the other side, of course. But in central Arizona that was a [...]