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Children, Parents Flock to the Waters
13th Annual Talking Trees Children's Trout DerbyThere they stood in a line stretching a quarter of a mile up and down the waters of Oconaluftee River. Some of them were up to their knees while others...
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The Rut: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Andy Williams wasn’t crooning about the rut when he released his hit Christmas song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” way back in October of 1963. (At least, we don’t think he was.) For elk...
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Good Times at Elk Festival!
What lasts four days, draws folks from across the Upper Midwest and ends with scores of people --young and old-- returning home with full sets of antlers? It's gotta be the annual Elk Festival in tiny...
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Opening Up More Pennsylvania Elk Country
A foggy day in Pennsylvania elk countryIt was the perfect kind of September day to be an elk in east-central Pennsylvania—overcast, chilly, foggy, drizzly and with the kind of dampness in the air that...
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Hunter-Conservationists
About the only thing most RMEF volunteers like better than conserving elk country is getting out into it with their bow or rifle. If they can help cultivate a young hunter while they’re at it, that’s...
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Whackin’ Weeds and Having Fun in the Raggeds
RMEF North Fork Chapter volunteers workfight noxious weeds This past summer, the Paonia Ranger District on Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s newly formed North...
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RMEF Grant, Volunteers Help Young Potosi Shooters
A Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation state grant and volunteers from the River Bluffs Chapter in Iowa helped the newly formed Potosi School District Clay Shooting Team in Wisconsin get off the ground and...
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More Fun than Work
Earlier this year, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation volunteers helped researchers from the University of Wyoming’s Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit capture and radio collar elk in order to...
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Youth Wildlife Field Day Coming to RMEF
Kids of all ages will have the opportunity to learn about elk, other wildlife, conservation and hunting at Youth Wildlife Conservation Field Day on Saturday, October 11, at the headquarters of the...
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Great Elk Tour Gets Facelift
How do you make something great even greater? In the case of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Great Elk Tour, you give it a facelift. RMEF’s home-away-from-home now has a new home.“We got a new...
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RMEF Opposes Sale or Transfer of Federal Public Lands
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation forwarded the letter below to every member of Congress representing constituents across the West in the United States. October 3, 2014The Honorable XXX XXXXUnited...
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Hunters Free Elk Calf Stuck in Barb Wire Fence
There’s nothing that makes a hunt more enjoyable and exciting than seeing wild animals up-close on the landscape. A couple of bowhunters, however, had an extremely different kind of...
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Honoring an American Hero for His Service, Sacrifice
The year was 1967. Like so many of his young fellow Americans, Richard Villareal found himself far from home. He voluntarily enlisted in the Army to serve his country in Vietnam.On one particular day,...
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Bill Hines: A Friend to Oregon Elk
Bob and Tucker accept RMEF ConservationPartners AwardOregonians have a better view of elk thanks to Bill Hines. A life member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and retired biologist after 34 years...
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Elk 101-Do Elk Eat Dirt?
Below is an excerpt from the November/December issue of Bugle, magazine of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.If you took vitamins as a kid, your parents probably told you they would help you grow up...
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Admiral Michelle Howard Talks about RMEF[1]
With a smile on her face and the internal drive to match her ongoing commitment to her country, Michelle Howard stepped to the front of the room at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at...
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A "Gang" of Elk?
They're calling us what?(Photo courtesy Charlie Cropp)A link recently popped up on my TweetDeck titled Ten Things That Might Surprise You About Elk. Elk are amazing creatures and have all sorts of...
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Public Access Secured to 41,000 Acres in Southwest Montana
MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation teamed up with a private landowner, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Forest Service (USFS), Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) and local...
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A Bull Elk's Bugle in Favor of Conservation
Mike Mueller lets out an elk bugle call(Photo via Thom Bridge/Independent Record)An elk bugle call echoed across the foothills of the Big Belt Mountains on a damp autumn day, in between the passing of...
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An Elk-Loving Insomniac
I cannot get to sleep tonight.I toss and turn and flop.I try to count some fluffy sheepwhile o'er a fence they hop.--Kathy Kenney-MarshallWhat is it with insomnia and counting sheep? Has counting sheep...
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