Highway 160 Wildlife Crossing – Restoring Elk Country
A busy highway can be a barrier to wildlife movement. It can also be dangerous or even deadly for wildlife and drivers alike. Thanks to [...]
RestoringElk Country
Highlighting how RMEF and its partners are utilizing member and volunteer support to Restore Elk Country to create the best possible habitat for elk and other wildlife. Produced with support by Yeti and Leupold.
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Threemile WMA Forest Thinning – Restoring Elk Country
History is not always kind to forestland. Take the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana, south of Missoula, where fire suppression and a lack of forest [...]
North Fork Pound Lake Prescribed Burn – Restoring Elk Country
This landscape is home to one of the greatest wildlife management conservation successes in recent American history. And a smoky facelift makes it even better. [...]
$1 Million Wildfire Restoration – Restoring Elk Country
Catastrophic wildfire can alter a landscape for years or even decades. High-intensity fires destroy trees, shrubs, plants, root systems and the soil’s protective vegetation layer. [...]
Fall Creek Aspen Restoration – Restoring Elk Country
Southeast Idaho is a war zone most people don’t know about. Conifers creep into and crowd out aspen stands, which supply valuable, life-sustaining habitat for [...]
Green Mountain Prescribed Burns – Restoring Elk Country
Fire does a forest good when it burns periodically. When fire suppression prevails, the result can be white-hot flames and catastrophic wildfire that destroys trees, [...]
Waugh Mountain Forest Thinning Colorado – Restoring Elk country
Unfortunately, it’s an all-too common dilemma across vast portions of elk country. A past overemphasis on fire suppression resulted in forestlands that are uncharacteristically dense [...]
Hatfield Knob Forage Openings Tennessee – Restoring Elk Country
Enhance it and they will come. The southern stretch of the Cumberland Mountains is Tennessee elk country, and Hatfield Knob is its epicenter. About 50 [...]
William H. Silver Game Land Habitat Enhancement – North Carolina
Western North Carolina is elk country. About 200 elk roam the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding landscape. 15 years after helping successfully restore elk to [...]
Forest Restoration in Spanish Peaks, Colorado – How RMEF is Restoring Elk Country
With more than 15,000 elk, the Trinchera herd is among the largest in the state. The mighty Spanish Peaks northwest of Trinidad jut like a [...]
Kimberly Clark Wildlife Area, Wisconsin – Restoring Elk Country
Wisconsin has two distinct elk ranges. The Clam Lake Elk Range, the older of the two located in the northern part of the state, features [...]
Collin’s Park Forest Thinning, New Mexico – Restoring Elk Country
Once known as Collin’s Park, the now deserted small outpost is a large meadow that sits on the Continental Divide at an elevation of 7,135 [...]
Shoshone National Forest Aspen Restoration, Wyoming – Restoring Elk Country
Sponsored by Yeti Imagine a sweeping mountainous landscape that offers habitat for elk and other wildlife that’s undergoing a long-term facelift of sorts. Welcome to [...]
Fort Riley, Kansas Forage Enhancement – Restoring Elk Country
Elk Army Eradicates Fencing At the annual Kansas RMEF rendezvous, Elk Foundation volunteers representing five chapters across the state, some as far as four hours [...]
Restoring Elk Country – Blackfoot Watershed Habitat Enhancement, Montana
Since 1988, the Elk Foundation has been working to protect and enhance key elk habitat in western Montana’s Blackfoot Valley, home to upwards of 6,000 [...]