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RMEF
January 2, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Tony Barker, RMEF Nevada Regional Director, at 775-971-9000 or tbarker@rmef.org
Painting auction to help fund Nevada conservation project
RENO, Nev.—Eastern Nevada is home to one of America’s most ambitious conservation projects, and one of the country’s premier wildlife artists is lending support in a big way.
Renowned artist Larry Zabel’s 10-foot by 3-foot painting of elk and ancient bristlecone pines atop Moriah Peak, near Ely, will be auctioned March 1 at the annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Reno. The painting is valued at $75,000. Net proceeds from the sale will help fund the 10-million acre Eastern Nevada Landscape Restoration Project (ENLRP). A massive initiative, ENLRP is a collaborative effort with many partners, spearheaded by the Bureau of Land Management and the Elk Foundation.
The painting, titled “The View from Moriah,” is currently on public display in Reno in the foyer of the BLM-Nevada state office building, 1340 Financial Blvd. Call 775-861-6586 for more information. It may be displayed at other locations in Reno until the Elk Foundation’s convention begins on Feb. 27.
“The mission of this wonderful work of fine art is to add visibility to ENLRP and to raise funds for conservation,” said Congressman Jim Gibbons, R-Reno. “It is commendable that the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has undertaken this project whose proceeds will go toward helping restore 10 million acres of eastern Nevada land for wildlife, livestock and people. Clearly, Nevadans are great stewards of the land and this restoration project will allow Nevadans to further manage the land in the way that they know is best for the state.”
Gibbons has actively supported a variety of Nevada conservation measures including public hunting and access issues.
Elk Foundation Vice President of Marketing and Communications Tony Schoonen said he hopes the painting sells for double its market value: “All the more proceeds to help restore 10 million acres of land for wildlife, livestock and people,” he said. “Ideally, we will generate some serious competition among conservation-minded firms or individuals who will purchase the painting for continued public display by the buyer, or by loaning or donating it to the State of Nevada, the BLM or another agency, or the Elk Foundation itself. This is the type, scale and quality of art that deserves to be permanently available for public appreciation.”
Zabel is a Montanan known for Western and wildlife art. He specializes in paintings of ranch life, Native Americans of the Northern Rockies and historical events of the old West. His works have been shown at the White House, Pentagon, Smithsonian Institute, Salmagundi Club and Hollyhock House. Zabel’s wildlife art is regularly featured by the Elk Foundation, where individual paintings have been sold at national auctions for as much as $120,000.
“The View from Moriah” incorporates many aspects of eastern Nevada’s unique landscape. At 12,000 feet, the peak overlooks Spring Valley, distant mountain ranges and sprawling sagebrush horizons. This is elk country, and the painting features three huge bulls and a herd of cows against the dramatic, panoramic landscape. The elk are depicted resting in the shade of magnificent bristlecone pines—eastern Nevada is perhaps the only place where elk and bristlecones can be found together.
Working together in an ambitious campaign called “Pass It On,” members, volunteers and partners 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 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.
January 2, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Tony Barker, RMEF Nevada Regional Director, at 775-971-9000 or tbarker@rmef.org
Painting auction to help fund Nevada conservation project
RENO, Nev.—Eastern Nevada is home to one of America’s most ambitious conservation projects, and one of the country’s premier wildlife artists is lending support in a big way.
Renowned artist Larry Zabel’s 10-foot by 3-foot painting of elk and ancient bristlecone pines atop Moriah Peak, near Ely, will be auctioned March 1 at the annual convention of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Reno. The painting is valued at $75,000. Net proceeds from the sale will help fund the 10-million acre Eastern Nevada Landscape Restoration Project (ENLRP). A massive initiative, ENLRP is a collaborative effort with many partners, spearheaded by the Bureau of Land Management and the Elk Foundation.
The painting, titled “The View from Moriah,” is currently on public display in Reno in the foyer of the BLM-Nevada state office building, 1340 Financial Blvd. Call 775-861-6586 for more information. It may be displayed at other locations in Reno until the Elk Foundation’s convention begins on Feb. 27.
“The mission of this wonderful work of fine art is to add visibility to ENLRP and to raise funds for conservation,” said Congressman Jim Gibbons, R-Reno. “It is commendable that the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has undertaken this project whose proceeds will go toward helping restore 10 million acres of eastern Nevada land for wildlife, livestock and people. Clearly, Nevadans are great stewards of the land and this restoration project will allow Nevadans to further manage the land in the way that they know is best for the state.”
Gibbons has actively supported a variety of Nevada conservation measures including public hunting and access issues.
Elk Foundation Vice President of Marketing and Communications Tony Schoonen said he hopes the painting sells for double its market value: “All the more proceeds to help restore 10 million acres of land for wildlife, livestock and people,” he said. “Ideally, we will generate some serious competition among conservation-minded firms or individuals who will purchase the painting for continued public display by the buyer, or by loaning or donating it to the State of Nevada, the BLM or another agency, or the Elk Foundation itself. This is the type, scale and quality of art that deserves to be permanently available for public appreciation.”
Zabel is a Montanan known for Western and wildlife art. He specializes in paintings of ranch life, Native Americans of the Northern Rockies and historical events of the old West. His works have been shown at the White House, Pentagon, Smithsonian Institute, Salmagundi Club and Hollyhock House. Zabel’s wildlife art is regularly featured by the Elk Foundation, where individual paintings have been sold at national auctions for as much as $120,000.
“The View from Moriah” incorporates many aspects of eastern Nevada’s unique landscape. At 12,000 feet, the peak overlooks Spring Valley, distant mountain ranges and sprawling sagebrush horizons. This is elk country, and the painting features three huge bulls and a herd of cows against the dramatic, panoramic landscape. The elk are depicted resting in the shade of magnificent bristlecone pines—eastern Nevada is perhaps the only place where elk and bristlecones can be found together.
Working together in an ambitious campaign called “Pass It On,” members, volunteers and partners 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 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.
