Mission Statement of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

I have supported this organization, since 1983 as well as Ducks Unlimited. And the last time I went deer hunting or duck hunting was in 1968. It is about conservation and ethically acting as a necessary predator. But I will become enraged at ill managed/false, self serving captive animal conservation propaganda(read Sanctuaries/private/performing animal ownership.)

What is our legacy? Will it be a landscape of open skies and rolling hills or one of strip malls and box stores? Will our children inherit the opportunity to pursue the animal of their dreams or only faded photos of what once was?

These are the questions we ask today, questions not unlike those that led hunters and anglers to establish game laws, fair-chase ethics and conservation goals in the early 1900s. At the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, we carry on that hunter-conservationist tradition. In fact, we’ve protected and enhanced five million acres of critical wildlife habitat since 1984.

But more must be done. Today, like every day, 2,500 acres of wildlife habitat will disappear — replaced by sprawl and concrete. That intense level of development, along with threats such as noxious weeds, makes now a critical time for the future of elk country.

We invite you to join the Elk Foundation, support our mission programs — habitat stewardship, permanent land protection, conservation education and elk restoration —and help build our endowment. Together we can be the future of elk country. And that future can be as strong, alive and vital as a bugling bull.