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May 6, 2003
This news release also posted at http://www.elkfoundation.org. For more information, contact Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Tom Baker at 270-781-3844, or Interim CEO and President, Jon Fossel or Human Resources Director Becky Bennett at 800-CALL ELK.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dart selected as new CEO of Elk Foundation
MISSOULA, Mont.--Peter J. Dart has been selected as the new president and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. After an extensive screening process, telephone interviews, written questions, presentations before staff and key volunteers, and multiple personal interviews, the conservation organization's board of directors formally offered the position, and Dart accepted, on Monday.
The hiring brings to conclusion a four-month search that attracted a pool of more than 250 applicants.
Dart will report for work at the Elk Foundation on May 31.
"We are very pleased to welcome (Peter) J. Dart and his family to the Elk Foundation," said Tom Baker, a Bowling Green, Ky., businessman who serves as the Elk Foundation's board chairman. "We are confident in his abilities to lead our great organization into a new era of ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife and their habitat."
A reception for Dart is being planned for May 14, the Elk Foundation's 19th Anniversary, at the organization's headquarters in Missoula.
Dart is an avid conservationist, hunter and outdoors enthusiast. He is a life member and longtime supporter of the Elk Foundation.
"I've watched the growth and mission successes of the Elk Foundation for many years, and I've been so impressed by its accomplishments. I welcome the opportunity to help lead this organization--its board, volunteers and staff--to new achievements in elk habitat conservation," said Dart, who lives in Tucson, Ariz. "And my family and I are trilled to move to Missoula and get to know the community," he added.
Dart has been a recognized leader in the shooting sports and hunting industry for the past 17 years. His new position with the Elk Foundation ends his tenure as executive director of the Safari Club International and SCI Foundation, a position he held since 2001. While at Safari Club, he and his team repositioned that organization as a leader in protecting freedoms to hunt worldwide, established a charitable giving program that exceeded financial expectations, engaged corporate sponsors, achieved record income at the organization's annual convention in 2003, and balanced a budget deficit of $2.8 million.
>From 1990 to 2001, he was president of Dart International Inc., a company that invented and produced interactive video target systems for use in various aspects of the shooting sports industry including hunter's education. Dart has served on the boards of the Archery Manufacturers and Merchants Association and the industry advisory board for the International Hunter Education Association. He currently serves on the board of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in Washington D.C.
"We've got a real winner in J. Dart, and I'm thrilled with his selection," said Bob Munson of Polson, one of the Elk Foundation's founders as well as its first CEO and still an honorary member of the board. "Our search process was exhaustive and J. rose to the top. I'm convinced that he brings the passion and leadership necessary to move us to a new level of mission accomplishment."
Working together in an ambitious campaign called "Pass It On," members, volunteers, and supporters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are conserving elk country at a pace exceeding 1½ square miles per day. Their organizational goal is to reach 5 million total acres-an area more than double the size of Yellowstone National Park-in 2005. Emphasizing permanent land protection and habitat stewardship, the Elk Foundation's state-of-the-art mapping technology focuses the work in crucial elk winter range, summer range, migration corridors and calving grounds. To help us "pass on" an elk country legacy for future generations, visit http://www.elkfoundation.org or call 800-CALL ELK.
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Steve Wagner
Communications Director
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
2291 West Broadway
Missoula, MT 59808
800-CALL ELK, ext. 542
406-523-4542
swagner@rmef.org
This news release also posted at http://www.elkfoundation.org. For more information, contact Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Tom Baker at 270-781-3844, or Interim CEO and President, Jon Fossel or Human Resources Director Becky Bennett at 800-CALL ELK.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dart selected as new CEO of Elk Foundation
MISSOULA, Mont.--Peter J. Dart has been selected as the new president and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. After an extensive screening process, telephone interviews, written questions, presentations before staff and key volunteers, and multiple personal interviews, the conservation organization's board of directors formally offered the position, and Dart accepted, on Monday.
The hiring brings to conclusion a four-month search that attracted a pool of more than 250 applicants.
Dart will report for work at the Elk Foundation on May 31.
"We are very pleased to welcome (Peter) J. Dart and his family to the Elk Foundation," said Tom Baker, a Bowling Green, Ky., businessman who serves as the Elk Foundation's board chairman. "We are confident in his abilities to lead our great organization into a new era of ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife and their habitat."
A reception for Dart is being planned for May 14, the Elk Foundation's 19th Anniversary, at the organization's headquarters in Missoula.
Dart is an avid conservationist, hunter and outdoors enthusiast. He is a life member and longtime supporter of the Elk Foundation.
"I've watched the growth and mission successes of the Elk Foundation for many years, and I've been so impressed by its accomplishments. I welcome the opportunity to help lead this organization--its board, volunteers and staff--to new achievements in elk habitat conservation," said Dart, who lives in Tucson, Ariz. "And my family and I are trilled to move to Missoula and get to know the community," he added.
Dart has been a recognized leader in the shooting sports and hunting industry for the past 17 years. His new position with the Elk Foundation ends his tenure as executive director of the Safari Club International and SCI Foundation, a position he held since 2001. While at Safari Club, he and his team repositioned that organization as a leader in protecting freedoms to hunt worldwide, established a charitable giving program that exceeded financial expectations, engaged corporate sponsors, achieved record income at the organization's annual convention in 2003, and balanced a budget deficit of $2.8 million.
>From 1990 to 2001, he was president of Dart International Inc., a company that invented and produced interactive video target systems for use in various aspects of the shooting sports industry including hunter's education. Dart has served on the boards of the Archery Manufacturers and Merchants Association and the industry advisory board for the International Hunter Education Association. He currently serves on the board of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in Washington D.C.
"We've got a real winner in J. Dart, and I'm thrilled with his selection," said Bob Munson of Polson, one of the Elk Foundation's founders as well as its first CEO and still an honorary member of the board. "Our search process was exhaustive and J. rose to the top. I'm convinced that he brings the passion and leadership necessary to move us to a new level of mission accomplishment."
Working together in an ambitious campaign called "Pass It On," members, volunteers, and supporters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are conserving elk country at a pace exceeding 1½ square miles per day. Their organizational goal is to reach 5 million total acres-an area more than double the size of Yellowstone National Park-in 2005. Emphasizing permanent land protection and habitat stewardship, the Elk Foundation's state-of-the-art mapping technology focuses the work in crucial elk winter range, summer range, migration corridors and calving grounds. To help us "pass on" an elk country legacy for future generations, visit http://www.elkfoundation.org or call 800-CALL ELK.
END
Steve Wagner
Communications Director
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
2291 West Broadway
Missoula, MT 59808
800-CALL ELK, ext. 542
406-523-4542
swagner@rmef.org
