Volunteers Propel RMEF Conservation Work
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation celebrates National Volunteer Week by acknowledging since 1984, its volunteers helped conserve or enhance nearly 8.4 million [...]
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Arizona Receives $2.1 Million in Conservation Funding from RMEF, Partners
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners allocated $2,098,338 in grant funding in Arizona for elk habitat stewardship, wildlife management and [...]
The Kentucky Elk Expansion
In December of 1997, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources released the first elk to the Southern Appalachian coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Over the [...]
Innovative “Wild Sustenance” Program Coming to a College Classroom Near You
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Wildlife Biology Program at the University of Montana (UM) will unveil a bold, innovative, hands-on [...]
RMEF Conserves Riparian and Meadow Habitat, Opens More Access in Nevada
MISSOULA, Mont. — As part of a collaborative effort to protect riparian and meadow habitat and improve public access to it in northern Nevada, the [...]
California Granted Nearly $4.6 Million in Conservation Funding
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners allocated $4,593,330 in grant funding for habitat enhancement, scientific research and hunting heritage projects [...]
RMEF Fights for Public Access to Public Lands
MISSOULA, Mont. — Seeking to maintain public access for hunters and anglers to the nation’s wildlife refuges, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, National Rifle Association, [...]
Virginia’s First Elk Hunt – A “Conservation Milestone”
MISSOULA, Mont. — Ten years after the successful restoration of elk to their historic Virginia range, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is accepting [...]
Access Improved to Key Montana Elk Winter Range
MISSOULA, Mont. — A swath of vital western Montana elk winter range is now conserved and opened to public access thanks to a collaborative effort [...]
Wolves Relisted, Scientific Wildlife Management Frustrated Again
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation strongly disagrees with a ruling by a federal judge in California to restore federal protections to gray [...]
RMEF Commits $1 Million to Wildfire Restoration
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation committed more than $1 million to landscape-scale efforts to help restore thousands of acres of public and [...]
2021: A Year of RMEF Conservation Accomplishment
MISSOULA, Mont. — As the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation looks to advance conservation with its 2022 mission work, it looks back on a year of [...]
Conservation Partners Help RMEF Advance Mission
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation carried out vital conservation work in 2021 thanks to its dedicated partners who believe in its mission. [...]
Montana Elk Habitat Protected, Open to Public Access
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and U.S. Forest Service worked with a willing landowner to conserve two private inholdings of wildlife habitat [...]
Pennsylvania Receives More than $500K in Conservation, Hunting Heritage Funding
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and its partners contributed $541,893 in grant funding to support wildlife habitat enhancement, scientific research, hunting heritage [...]