Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Inc. HQ

From the very beginning, the RMEF has made a name for itself by permanently protecting crucial habitat for elk and other wildlife. The RMEF purchases land from willing sellers, works with landowners to enact conservation easements, helps facilitate land exchanges, and accepts land donations. Lands we acquire are almost always conveyed to state or federal agencies and opened for public access. Lands with conservation easements remain privately owned and controlled, providing habitat that will never be compromised.

Winter range, summer range, migration corridors and calving grounds are all critical to elk. The RMEF restores and enhances the quality of these areas by funding a wide range of hands-on stewardship from forest thinning to prescribe burning to noxious weed treatment to building dependable water sources. Since 1984, the RMEF has
greatly improved the health of millions of acres of key habitat for elk and other wildlife.

The RMEF plays a key role in restoring wild, free-ranging elk to places where they have long been absent. We helped reintroduce elk to Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia, and Ontario. We also greatly expanded elk populations and suitable habitat in many other states. Thanks to these thriving herds, people
are hunting elk once more in places like Arkansas, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.

Hunting provides a direct and powerful connection with the outdoors. That bond made hunters the original conservationists–and hunters remain the mightiest force for conservation the world has ever known and defines why Hunting is Conservation. The
RMEF has funded more than 1,500 projects and assisted in teaching more than 5 million
people hunting ethics, hunter safety and the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.