In just the past 13 years, modern conservation efforts have produced an amazing 62 new state and provincial records-plus over 3,500 other Boone and Crockett-class trophies-for mule deer and elk alone. These special efforts and animals are profiled in two new books from the Boone and Crockett Club.

Hunters can now learn to score North American big-game species for $5 per trophy type. For the first time, individual chapters of the official Boone and Crockett Club scoring manual are being offered as electronic PDF files.

By unanimous vote of its board of directors, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) has officially adopted the Boone and Crockett Club scoring system for measuring North American trophies taken by DSC members.

With vibrant photos of North American big game animals, insightful scoring tips and vintage images of award-winning trophies, a new 2009 wall calendar from Boone and Crockett Club makes a great gift for hunters and conservationists.

When Theodore Roosevelt called the first White House conference on conservation in 1908, America craved wild game but many species were dwindling.

As America prepares to celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day (September 27) and decades of conservation successes funded via sporting licenses and excise taxes, new data show that groups like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are increasingly important financiers of fish, wildlife and habitat programs.

Lawmakers working with a better understanding of elk habitat conservation and management. That's the ultimate goal behind the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's 2008 platinum-level support of the bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation and National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses.