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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Craig on April 28, 2008, 06:39:37 PM

Title: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: Craig on April 28, 2008, 06:39:37 PM: I just got this e mail. For some reason I can't open the rest of the story. Sounds good for elk and hunters.

Washington Gains 96 Square Miles of Great Public Elk Country

Thanks to a landmark exchange spearheaded by the Elk Foundation, Washington now has more than 61,000 acres—an area larger than Seattle—of new public land on the east slope of the Cascades for wildlife and people to roam.
READ FULL STORY
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: Red Dawg on April 28, 2008, 06:41:51 PM: Where at ???
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: TheHunt on April 28, 2008, 08:42:17 PM: http://www.rmef.org/Conservation/HowWeConserve/Landscapes/Initiatives/Washington/96miles.htm
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: saylean on April 28, 2008, 08:50:12 PM: That makes me smile. Glad to hear it was snatched up, before it could be cut up and sold off...
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: bobcat on April 28, 2008, 08:55:19 PM: Here is a listing of all the RMEF projects completed in Washington:

http://www.rmef.org/Conservation/HowWeConserve/Protection/Projects/Washington/projectsummary.htm?showall=all
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 28, 2008, 09:05:07 PM: Sweet.
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: SuperDave on April 28, 2008, 09:29:18 PM: Glad to see that take place! Anyone know the place?
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: bowhuntin on April 29, 2008, 08:47:32 PM: I read about this in rmef's publication the bugle. They have been working on this for a while now. The last phase that they secured is around oak creek, the tieton river area.
Title: Re: BIG Washington RMEF deal.
Post by: jackelope on April 29, 2008, 08:56:31 PM: thats great news for this state.
thanks for posting it up.