Conservation groups are working overtime as of late. With attacks on our public lands, attacks on our forests and healthy ecosystems, attacks on things like the Roadless Rule, and attacks in the form of local and state governments handing over huge swaths to proposed AI data centers, these groups fighting the good fight are needed now more than ever. But fighting against these tidal forces necessitates money. Money for legal challenges and money for on-the-ground conservation work.
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) is one of those groups, which, while the name implies it's only concerned with restoring and conserving elk populations, also works across species, habitats, and ranges to help all our country's ecosystems. Elk just happen to be the focus, which has worked out, as elk populations are once again thriving, and with the help of the group, have even restored populations that nearly went extinct—hello, Tule elk.
