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 [...]
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Elk Creek, CA – onX Public Access Project
Northern California is the only place on earth to find tule elk. And thanks, in part, to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, there’s more tule [...]
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 [...]
Minam River III, OR – onX Public Access Project
If you’ve got a good thing, why not make it better by making it bigger, especially if it improves public access. In northeast Oregon, you’ll [...]
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 [...]
East Canyon, UT – onX Public Access Project
It takes money to carry out meaningful conservation. When the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation found out about a last-minute chance to conserve 2,600 acres of [...]
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 [...]
Tex Creek, ID – onX Public Access Project
The Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area in southeast Idaho has 34,000 acres of habitat for a wide range of wildlife ranging from elk, mule deer [...]
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 [...]
Goetz Summit, PA – onX Public Access Project
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation continues to expand its conservation and public access efforts in Pennsylvania’s elk range. Here’s a recent two-pronged example. In late [...]
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 [...]
Smelterville Flats, ID – onX Public Access Project
In an Inland Northwest community known for its mining history but now recognized for its robust outdoor recreational opportunities, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation helped [...]
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 [...]
Smart Ideas for Year-End Giving: Three Elk-Worthy Hints
This holiday season, take a moment to consider impactful gifts you can give, including one that goes a long way toward ensuring the future of [...]