ORIGINAL: drs1961
The RMEF is the #1 conservation organization for keeping us land to hunt on. That's not a bad group to be a member of. Their Bugle magazine is hands down the best about elk that I've come across.
I like what the RMEF started out to as. Much like Ducks unlimited, & The Wild Turkey Federation it has gotten way off track. I saw a year or so back that the RMEF was Auctioning off a Winter Range hunt to the highest bidder. Tell me how that is good conservation.
Too much of the money donated or raised is spent to pay large salaries, and for the huge building they built. Every year a smaller and smaller percentage actually goes to conservation.
I dropped my membership a couple years ago and I will not go back unless they change their ways.