RMEF Ready to Pull the Trigger on Season 3 of Team Elk
June 19, 2013
MISSOULA, Mont.–The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s award-winning television show, RMEF Team Elk, returns to celebrate a third season of conservation and hunting on Sunday, July 7, at 3:00 p.m. (ET) on Outdoor Channel.
“Team Elk is much more than just a TV show,” said Steve Decker, RMEF vice president of Marketing. “It features the best landscapes in elk country, the wildlife that lives there, demonstrates how we solidify our connection to the land around us, and drives home the fact that Hunting is Conservation.”
The first episode features racing legend Johnny Unser Jr. and longtime RMEF volunteer Mike Baugh as they chase big bulls in the fast-paced, rut-filled Big Sky Country of Montana.
Each week, new episodes of RMEF Team Elk will air every Thursday at 10:00 a.m. (ET), Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (ET) and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (ET).
Season Three’s weekly episode highlights include how three women of the outdoors successfully “Shoot Like a Girl,” a young hunter who caps his first ever elk hunt in a big way, and more memorable up-close encounters with elk and other wildlife than ever before.
For a preview of Season Three, click the link below:
RMEF Team Elk represents a nationwide RMEF membership of more than 196,000. The series delivers RMEF’s mission of ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage to 34 million households per week on the Outdoor Channel with a theme of “Hunting is Conservation.”
“We are excited to bring a new look and format to our third season,” added Decker. “Our production staff works hard to make sure the viewer not only enjoys the show but comes away with a better understanding of the relationship between elk, hunters and conservationists, and the land around us.”
Presented by MidwayUSA, RMEF Team Elk is brought to you by: Browning, Nosler, Weaver, Buck Knives, Danner, PSE Archery, Eberlestock, Hunting GPS Maps, Archer Xtreme, Sitka, DeWalt, Budweiser, PEAK, Yamaha and Montana Decoy.
Open Thread – June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013
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Thought for Discussion Today
June 18, 2013
Most people will concur that climate change is ongoing and a “natural” phenomenon. Too many people actually believe that climate change is man-caused and occurs mostly through the generation of carbon dioxide and other, so-called, greenhouse gases. Here is my thoughtful question which can be discussed in the comments section.
Environmentalists always portray the effects of a so-called warming planet in a negative light only. As it may pertain to animals, this same negative harping exists. Surely there are just as many positive results from global warming as there are negative, but they are seldom, if ever, discussed. Do you agree?
Nanny Bloomberg Again: NY Mandatory Composting!
June 18, 2013
Big Apple “Voluntary” Composting Idea Stinks; Carries Health Risks, Says New York-Based Risk Expert
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg is planning on creating a “voluntary” composting program that will eventually become mandatory, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
“This is a rotten idea for the Big Apple,”says Jeff Stier, the New York City-based Director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division.
The National Center for Public Policy Research supports voluntary composting. “In fact,” says Stier, “we already have voluntary composting where residents can send their kitchen scraps to gardens around the five boroughs.”
So why the need for a new program? A Bloomberg official admitted to the New York Times that while initially voluntary, the goal is to require all residents of the city to save their kitchen scraps for a government-administered composting program. Those who don’t compost would be subject to fines.
“We live in a big city, not on a farm, and while composting is a great idea in certain circumstances,” says Stier, “it doesn’t make sense to mandate that all New York residents save their rotting food.”
Stier says the Mayor’s view is skewed in favor of anything labeled “green.” “If they mayor applied his risk-averse trans-fat banning, soda-size limiting science to the risks of composting in NYC he wouldn’t be making it mandatory, he’d be banning it,” exclaims Stier.
“Consider the increased risks from disease-carrying vermin (a problem the city still hasn’t conquered), from all of the pre-compost material sitting around our dense living spaces, not going out with the trash each night,” says Stier.
Stier wonders why Nanny Bloomberg isn’t worried about greenhouse gas emissions from the extra “compost trucks” that’ll have to be deployed. “Perhaps they’ll be carrot-peel powered,” chides Stier.
“There’s no way food scraps can be picked up from every home throughout the city without greatly increasing the number of trucks, traffic, and tyranny.”
Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking and trans fats from New York bars and restaurants, required calorie counts on restaurant menus, banned smoking in city plazas, parks and beaches, and banned private food donations to city homeless shelters in an effort to monitor the fat, salt and fiber content of foods eaten by the homeless, a story broken by Stier’s reporting.
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Whatzit?
June 18, 2013
Can anyone tell what this contraption is?
Open Thread – June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013
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Two Fighting Black Bears Killed by Authorities
June 17, 2013
The Silver Fox
June 17, 2013
Photo by Robert Clifford
Technically speaking, it is difficult to know whether the fox in this photo is a true “silver fox” because of the historic differences in coloration, etc. It certainly appears to have more grey or “silver” than a common grey fox, and it does lack the classic white-tipped tail and black ears.
Either way, this is a gorgeous animal and I want to thank Bob Clifford for sharing this photo. I am to understand that this fox is a regular visitor to Mr. Clifford’s backyard.
Open Thread – June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013
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Open Thread – June 15, 2013
June 15, 2013
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I was born and raised in western Maine, where I lived for about 47 years. Now I split my time between my camp in Maine and my home in Florida. I am co-author of the best selling book, “The Legend of Grey Ghost and Other Tales From the Maine Woods”. I am widely published in numerous online and print publications across the country. 