To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Theodore Roosevelt
In 1887, Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club. The Club continues to focus on the goals of its founder by supporting programs designed to conserve our country's natural wildlife resources. In Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 Message to Congress, he challenged the nation to "increase the usefulness" of land because it was the key to prosperity of future generations.
As wildlife habitat shrinks due to increasing and conflicting land uses, we must find ways to make wildlife, agriculture, and other commercial development needs more compatible. Therein lies the great opportunity to "increase the usefulness."
To stimulate private sector leadership on wildlife research, education, and management, the Boone and Crockett Club purchased a working cattle ranch in prime wildlife habitat along Dupuyer Creek on the East Front of the Montana Rockies. The mission of the ranch, known as the TRM Ranch, is research, teaching, and demonstration of integrated livestock/wildlife conservation that is integral to the economic viability of private and adjacent public lands. The Club is also interested in maintaining and enhancing the stewardship roles of rural families who make their living through shared uses and management of natural resources and thus helping to conserve the natural wealth of our nation.
The ranch property is enrolled in the Montana's Block Management Program to offer public hunting opportunities. It is important to note that Club members cannot hunt on the TRM Ranch.
At the TRM Ranch, the Club conducts habitat research and demonstrates innovative land management practices, as well as conservation education programs. These activities are linked to a program of graduate scholarships directed by the Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana.
Available to the public is our Watchable Wildlife Trail, constructed in 1995.
"The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So we must and we will."
-Theodore Roosevelt