Restoring Elk Country – Tule Elk
The only place in the world to find tule elk is in central California. Once on the verge of outright extinction as a subspecies, the [...]
RestoringElk Country
Highlighting how RMEF and its partners are utilizing member and volunteer support to Restore Elk Country to create the best possible habitat for elk and other wildlife. Produced with support by Yeti and Leupold.
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Restoring Elk Country – Wildlife-Friendly Fencing
Fencing helps outline ownership boundaries and keeps livestock from roaming onto other tracts of land, but it can also make it difficult or impossible for [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Yakima-Tieton Main Canal
It sparked to life in late July of 2024. The Retreat Fire burned its way across more than 45,000 acres of sagebrush, grass, mixed conifer [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Eastern Elk Habitat Enhancement
Prior to 1997, there were zero established, wild, free-ranging elk herds in the Appalachian Mountains, except in Pennsylvania. Today, there are growing elk numbers there [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Wildfire Rehabilitation
Fire – when managed – is effective in clearing dead, woody debris off the forest floor and spawning the new growth of native grasses and [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Nevada Bitterbrush Planting
It was exactly what biologists and wildlife managers did not want to see. Several years of severe drought in northeast Nevada left wildlife habitat in [...]
Restoring Elk Country – North Carolina Buck Knob Access Project
When wildlife habitat and associated research need help, you can’t do anything about it if you can’t get there. That was the case in North [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Minnesota Brushland Shearing
Roads, ditches and development, in general, can leave an impact on wildlife habitat. Such is the case in northeast Minnesota where such activity disrupted what [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Payette National Forest Prescribed Burns
A lack of fire on a forested landscape not only takes a toll on the quality of wildlife habitat it supplies, but it has a [...]
Restoring Elk Country – AZ Rain Tank Replacement
Restoring Elk Country – AZ Rain Tank Replacement In June 2021, lightning ignited the Rafael Wildfire in central Arizona, just west of Sedona. Before firefighters [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Migration Corridor Funding
Restoring Elk Country – Migration Corridor Funding It’s simple, really. If you don’t know where elk, mule deer and pronghorn antelope migrate, you cannot understand [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Tomblin WMA, WV
Restoring Elk Country – WV Tomblin WMA Invasive Plant Treatment Returning elk to their historic West Virginia range in 2016 did not mark the end [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Book Cliffs, UT
Restoring Elk Country – Book Cliffs, UT The Book Cliffs of eastern Utah are among the most remote, rugged and yet beautiful landscapes in the [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Sproul State Forest Forage Openings, PA
Sproul State Forest Forage Openings, PA The mature, hardwood forests of north-central Pennsylvania are beautiful. Among them is the 305,000-acre Sproul State Forest, the largest [...]