The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s

Habitat Stewardship Program

 

RMEF’s Habitat Stewardship Program, working to improve elk country, is active in every state with wild, free-ranging elk. We work with federal and state agencies, private landowners and other non-profits to ensure that elk habitat continues to support the wildlife we love. Accomplishments in 2008 include:

 

• Enhancing 156,886 acres as part of 251 projects in 18 states

• The Dunoir grazing allotment waiver, protecting critical forage on elk winter range near Dubois, Wyoming

• Prescribed burns across elk country —including Hermosa Drainage in Colorado, Grygla in Minnesota and Pushmataha in Oklahoma—that rejuvenate the landscape and encourage forage growth.

• Noxious weed treatment—including Alder Creek in Oregon and Montgomery Ridge in Washington—that combats invasive plants that outcompete native flora.

• Improving understory vegetation—including Gallinas in New Mexico, Norbeck Wildlife

Preserve in South Dakota and Delano Lake in Wisconsin—by removing overgrown trees and shrubs to allow grasses and forbs to thrive.

• Aspen restoration—including Alturas in California, Dahlgreen in Utah and Pole Creek in Idaho—that reinvigorates the most productive upland habitat in the West.

 

Financial support of RMEF’s Habitat Stewardship Program will enable us to deepen relationships with our partners, increase our flexibility to respond to habitat emergencies and continue enhancing elk county for years to come. Give now and support habitat stewardship to ensure a future for elk, other wildlife and their habitat.

 

RMEF’S NATIONAL PRIORITIES FOR 2009

 

• Aspen Restoration

• Noxious Weed Treatment

• Prescribed Burns

• Thinning of Overstocked Forests