Managed Lands Initiative
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Channel: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism
Sustaining healthy elk herds requires quality habitat. Unfortunately, many corners of North America’s elk country today suffer from unnaturally dense forests, invasions of noxious weeds, lack of dependable water sources and many other challenges. To meet this critical need, RMEF is focusing our efforts through the Managed Lands Initiative to enhance habitat across elk country. Our aim is to restore or improve an average of 115,000 acres of elk habitat annually with a five-year target of 575,000 acres—an area more than twice the size of Rocky Mountain National Park or Great Smoky Mountains National Park—spread across America’s elk country coast to coast wherever habitat needs help the most. We will continue to partner with federal and state management agencies, private landowners, industry, universities and other non-profits—and in the process, vastly multiply the money we are able to put on the ground to ensure the future of elk and other wildlife. RMEF’s National Priority for the Managed Lands Initiative: Forest/rangeland thinning, Prescribed burning, Noxious weed control, Aspen restoration, Installation and maintenance of wildlife water sources.
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