Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

  • Taking our public lands: what about donated lands?

    Ralph Maughan

    If states grab federal lands, what happens to donated private lands? What do the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, and hundreds of other organizations have in common? Their gifts of acquired private land given to the federal government would be at risk if states got hold of the national…

  • Creator of the Olaus J. Murie Award bemoans the degeneration of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

    Ralph Maughan

    David Stalling worked for Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for a number of years. For 10 years he was conservation editor of Bugle, their magazine. He was also President for two terms of the Montana Wildlife Federation and presently is a grassroots organizer for Trout Unlimited. In view of the current controversy over the family of…

  • Olaus Murie’s son demands David Allen change Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s wolf policy (updated)

    Ralph Maughan

    Famous family of conservationists says change policy or give up the Olaus Murie Award- Olaus Murie is often called the “father of modern elk management.” His seminal scientific study of elk and many other kinds of wildlife such as caribou, which he learned about for 6 years in the field with has brother Adolf, was coupled with…

  • A Whackadoodle Response to the Wolf Decision

    Ken Cole

    Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation issues a press release. I don’t post links to anti-wolf websites or give much credence to their clams but the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has, as with their previous news release on wolves, issued another hyperbolic press release in response to Judge Malloy’s decision to relist wolves as an endangered species.…

  • Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation views the upcoming elk hunt

    Ralph Maughan

    Elk outlook is great reading, especially when compared to views that wolves have killed most of the elk in Idaho, WY, and MT- Elk hunters and all wildlife enthusiasts will find this fascinating reading for all the states and provinces. 2009 Elk Hunting Forecast.By Jack Ballard. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. For the 3 western states…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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