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 [...]
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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 [...]
Smart Ideas for Year-End Giving: Donor-Advised Funds
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 [...]
Smart Ideas for Year-End Giving: Individual Retirement Accounts
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 [...]
Smart Ideas for Year-End Giving: Stocks and Securities Donation
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 [...]
Seymour Creek, MT – onX Public Access Project
Call it a confluence of conservation with a great public access hook. In 2022, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation worked with a traditional landowner and [...]
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 [...]