Conservation is Thicker than Blood
Jacque and Bryan Stark’s family spirit helped build Tucson into RMEF’s highest‑earning chapter. But that’s just one small part of why they are receiving the […]
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Merchandise Catalog Goes Digital in 2021
As we move into 2021, we will see some welcome improvements to RMEF’s Event Management System and the way we order merchandise from our vendors. […]
Sponsoring A RMEF Event Just Got Better
Looking for some new and exciting opportunities to fundraise for your local RMEF chapter? We have some great news. In late October 2020, RMEF will […]
COVID Doesn’t Slow Down Colorado Volunteers
Nobody will dispute that 2020 has been the strangest year of our lives. Lockdowns, restrictions, cancellations, postponements, etc. We have seen it all. Despite all […]
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. […]
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 […]
Legislative Update
NATIONAL ISSUES President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) into law on August 4, 2020. Among other things, it permanently and fully funds […]
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 […]