The Boone and Crockett Club has a long history advocating for policies to support wildland forest management. In the early 1900s, the Club worked to develop and pass legislation that created the National Forest System and the U.S. Forest Service to manage these forests.

A revolver belonging to Boone and Crockett Club co-founder and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt sold for more than $750,000 at a recent auction. 

As the father of wildlife ecology and a driving force behind the creation of a wilderness system, Aldo Leopold left a monumental legacy for conservation.

Just decades after founders of the Boone and Crockett Club worked to save the last remnants of North American big game, other members worked to save the last vestiges of “untrammeled” wilderness. This is how a handful of members worked to create our nation’s wilderness system. 

Winter came early this year to the Rocky Mountain Front. On the Club’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch in northwest Montana, the plains slam into the Rocky Mountains in dramatic fashion—and the weather can be intense. Winds in some places on the Front average 18 mph every single day. That doesn’t seem to stop the big game, predators, and other woodland creatures from going about their…

Working Draft prepared by the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy

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