Boone and Crockett Club
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The Boone and Crockett Club (known as) conservationist
organization, founded in the United States
in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt
. The club was named in honor of Daniel Boone
and Davy Crockett
, whom the club's founders viewed as ethical hunters and honest men who loved the outdoors and earthly pursuits. In addition to authoring a famous "fair chase" statement of hunter ethics, the club worked for the elimination of industrial hunting, creation of wildlife reserves and conservation-minded regulation of hunting generally.
Key members of the club have included Theodore Roosevelt
, George Bird Grinnell
, Madison Grant
, Charles Alexander Sheldon
, William Tecumseh Sherman
, Gifford Pinchot
, Frederick Russell Burnham
, Ted Nugent
, E.D. Riekens, Jr., Charles Deering
and Aldo Leopold
.
Today the club is known largely for maintaining a (scoring) system by which big game animals may be objectively measured and given a "B&C score".
The Boone and Crockett Club is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, which is also the home of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
.
Key dates in the history of the organization include:
MISSION OF THE CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAM:
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAM:
The Boone and Crockett Club offers many educational camps and workshops through the Boone and Crockett Club Education Programshttp://www.boone-crockett.org/educationPrograms/education_overview.asp?area=educationPrograms held at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch http://www.boone-crockett.org/conservation/conservation_trmr.asp?area=conservation&ID=4E754E1B&se=1 in Dupuyer, Montana. These education programs at the TRM Ranch are not federally funded. They are supported by the Boone and Crockett Club and by private foundations committed to K-12 education.
The seventh book of the Boone and Crockett Club, this wide-ranging collection includes accounts of Expeditions toward the North Pole and to the south of the Equator, articles relating to wild animals, and other pieces that speak the perils of hunting game to the brink of extinction. Among the most noteworthy contributions are "The Vanished Game of Yesterday" by Madison Grant, "An Epic of the Polar Air Lanes" by Lincoln Ellsworth, "Aeluropus Melanoleucus" by Kermit Roosevelt
, "Taps for the Great Selous" by Frederick R. Burnham
, "Volcano Sheep" by G.D. Pope, "Three Days on the Stikine River" by Emory W. Clark, and "Giant Sable Antelope" by Charles P. Curtis.
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
organization, founded in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
. The club was named in honor of Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...
and Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett
David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
, whom the club's founders viewed as ethical hunters and honest men who loved the outdoors and earthly pursuits. In addition to authoring a famous "fair chase" statement of hunter ethics, the club worked for the elimination of industrial hunting, creation of wildlife reserves and conservation-minded regulation of hunting generally.
Key members of the club have included Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
, George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student...
, Madison Grant
Madison Grant
Madison Grant was an American lawyer, historian and physical anthropologist, known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist...
, Charles Alexander Sheldon
Charles Alexander Sheldon
Charles Alexander Sheldon was a conservationist and the "Father of Denali National Park"-External links:**...
, William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War , for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched...
, Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania...
, Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.Burnham...
, Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
, E.D. Riekens, Jr., Charles Deering
Charles Deering
Charles Deering was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. He was an executive of the agricultural machinery company founded by his father that became International Harvester. Charles's successful stewardship of the family firm left him with the means and leisure to indulge...
and Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold was an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac , which has sold over two million copies...
.
Today the club is known largely for maintaining a (scoring) system by which big game animals may be objectively measured and given a "B&C score".
The Boone and Crockett Club is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, which is also the home of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is a conservationist organization, founded in the United States in 1984 by four hunters from Troy, Montana with the mission of ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife, and their habitat...
.
Key dates in the history of the organization include:
- 1887: Founded by Theodore RooseveltTheodore RooseveltTheodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
- 1922: National Collection of Heads and Horns established at the Bronx ZooBronx ZooThe Bronx Zoo is located in the Bronx borough of New York City, within Bronx Park. It is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising of park lands and naturalistic habitats, through which the Bronx River flows....
in New York City. - 1930: American Committee for International Wild Life Protection is founded by the Boone and Crockett Club for the purpose of representing American sympathy and interest in international wild life protection. John Charles Phillips (1876-1938) was made the chair. This committee is later incorporated into the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
- 1932: First big-game records book published, Records of North American Big Game by Prentiss N. Gray.
- 1947: Big Game Competitions, with the winners being chosen by a Judges' Panel
- 1950: Scoring system for big game records first adopted.
- 1960: An American Crusade for Wildlife by James B. Trafethen published. A history of the Boone and Crockett Club that has been accepted as the landmark text for conservation.
- 2004: "Hunt Fair Chase" program launched. This program brings together the hunting and conservation communities to deliver a positive message of hunter ethics to all hunters
Education
The Boone and Crockett Club strives to educate not only the public, but especially youth, in making informed choices about use of natural resources, conservation, and land stewardship.MISSION OF THE CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAM:
- To increase humanities' awareness and understanding of wildlife and the ecosystems we all share and our influence on the natural and cultural resources of these ecosystems.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSERVATION EDUCATION PROGRAM:
- To provide students and educators opportunities to build a lasting awareness and understandings for the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems.
- To develop conservation education materials that are implemented into rural and urban schools throughout the world.
- To offer opportunities to teachers and high school students to work with researchers and natural resource professionals on conservation related projects.
- To foster a land ethic in which people are committed to the principle that their use of natural resources must be sustainable both for themselves and future generations.
The Boone and Crockett Club offers many educational camps and workshops through the Boone and Crockett Club Education Programshttp://www.boone-crockett.org/educationPrograms/education_overview.asp?area=educationPrograms held at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch http://www.boone-crockett.org/conservation/conservation_trmr.asp?area=conservation&ID=4E754E1B&se=1 in Dupuyer, Montana. These education programs at the TRM Ranch are not federally funded. They are supported by the Boone and Crockett Club and by private foundations committed to K-12 education.
Books
- Hunting on Three Continents, Grinnell, George BirdGeorge Bird GrinnellGeorge Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student...
, Kermit RooseveltKermit RooseveltKermit Roosevelt I MC was a son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He was an explorer on two continents with his father, a graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British and U.S. Armies, a businessman, and a writer...
, W. Redmond Cross, and Prentiss N. Gray (editors). New York: The Derrydale Press (1933) --
The seventh book of the Boone and Crockett Club, this wide-ranging collection includes accounts of Expeditions toward the North Pole and to the south of the Equator, articles relating to wild animals, and other pieces that speak the perils of hunting game to the brink of extinction. Among the most noteworthy contributions are "The Vanished Game of Yesterday" by Madison Grant, "An Epic of the Polar Air Lanes" by Lincoln Ellsworth, "Aeluropus Melanoleucus" by Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt I MC was a son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He was an explorer on two continents with his father, a graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars, with both the British and U.S. Armies, a businessman, and a writer...
, "Taps for the Great Selous" by Frederick R. Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.Burnham...
, "Volcano Sheep" by G.D. Pope, "Three Days on the Stikine River" by Emory W. Clark, and "Giant Sable Antelope" by Charles P. Curtis.
- Hunting the American West, Rattenbury, Richard C. Missoula, MT: Boone and Crockett Club (2008)--