If so you'll want to sign up for our youth hunt camp. The hunt number was 3067.
Below is the link to register for the learn to hunt camp
Would you like to learn more about the habits of elk and how to hunt? Come join us for a one day seminar. Bring your kids! Dan Adler hosts who is the owner of Diamond Outfitters and one of the best hunters we know! We'll have lunch and a vendor area set up. Volunteer or attend
On Friday, May 16, the Arizona Elk Society and volunteers met at Leonard Canyon for our first habitat project of the season. We started on this project last October, but our 2nd weekend was snowed out. During that weekend, we had gone in and set all of the posts. When we arrived at camp around 10:30, most of the volunteers had shown up already, so we immediately started setting up camp. It was a beautiful, cool day with temperatures in the 60s. After taking about an hour to set up camp, we loaded up the trailer and headed down to the jobsite. Our goal was to get all of the panels staged where they needed to be for the next day. We were successful in achieving this, so we decided to start hanging the panels and the gate. We had a crew this weekend that was very good, and by the end of the night, we had panels hung on 7 of the 8 sides of the fence! We decided to head back to
camp for some burgers and leave the rest for Saturday. Afterwards, we all sat around a campfire chatting for a bit.
Saturday morning, we woke up to breakfast burritos and a crisp morning. After eating and our brief safety meeting, we headed back to the jobsite, which was about 1.5 miles from camp. We broke up into several teams. We had a team that was hanging the final panels, a team that was starting to place the top and bottom rails on the fence, and a cutting team. Work went fast, and we had most of the top rails attached by lunchtime, so we headed to camp for some hot dogs and brats. After lunch, we continued working on the single rails, and now had 2 teams working on them. With a great crew with lots of experience building continuous rail fences, we had the project completely finished by 4:30 Saturday. We cleaned up the jobsite, loaded up the trailer, and headed back to camp. When we arrived at camp, we realized the wind had gotten up pretty good and had moved our kitchen canopy. So we put it back up, secured it to trees, and cooked an alfredo/marinara pasta supper. Afterwards, it was quite windy, so we did not have a fire. We just all retired to bed.
Sunday morning, after a very windy night with probably 40 mph gusts, we got up to again find our kitchen canopy had been knocked over, along with the grills. So we took it down, cooked a little breakfast, loaded up the trailer, and called this job completed. Overall, we had a great crew that worked hard to build this 570 linear foot fence. Job well done!
Fence Project August 1st-3rd
Apache Maid which is near Stoneman Lake in unit 6A we'll be building a logworm fence. Come join us for the weekend!
Project season is wrapped up and we're already planning for next summer. Stay tuned for updates about upcoming volunteer opportunities. To get on the list early click below to email Russ.
We are ramping up our Sawyer Program. Out first project is March 15-16th. If your certification is expired that's okay! Or if you are interested to see our sawyers in action come on out,help and see if this is for you! Click the form below or email Lindsay at lindsayl@arizonaelksociety.org
After our last casting session at the pond on April 29, the Heroes Rising Outdoors fly-fishing group was ready to take on Christopher Creek. We all started arriving at the Van Ness Lodge around noon on Friday, May 2. The weather was perfect, with just a few sprinkles of rain and a temperature in the upper 50s as we were unloading the trailer and packing into 
the lodge. When the participants got settled into their bunks for the weekend, they started to prep their rods for a great weekend down at the creek. A few headed down to start fishing before we met again at the lodge for supper. Our cooks were busy preparing meatloaf, green bean casserole, salad, Hawaiian rolls, and potatoes. We had a special guest who ate supper with us, Robert Lafler, and then treated us to an hour-long live music set afterwards. We truly appreciate his willingness to come and provide some live entertainment for our camps. Everyone loves the music he plays and is a great evening treat for our veterans. After the live music, we all went out and sat around a propane fire pit, where greatconversations and endless laughs followed. Always one of the best times at camp is sitting around the campfire chatting.
Saturday morning, our participants and guides woke up to the smell of bacon in the air and a huge breakfast buffet of eggs, 
sausage, bacon, hashbrowns, biscuits, and gravy, thanks to the camp cooks. Then each person headed down to the creek to relax and fish the day away. The bite was good, and each person was able to get some amazing practice in and catch sometrout. We caught rainbow, brown, and Gila trout. While most stayed at the easily accessible part of the river, a few of us headed down to the box canyon to fish the pools. Lunch came quickly, and we had burgers, hotdogs, and chips for our midday meal. After lunch, we gave some options to fish othercreeks or go on a hike to try to find a waterfall and get down to some pools further down the creek. Some just relaxed around the cabin. Most went to fish the upper portion of the creek again in the evening, but 5 of us embarked on a hike downstream. We went up the left side of the creek, where we got cliffed out. Then went up the right side of the creek, where we also got cliffed out. We even had a drone to send out for surveillance for a route down to the river. Lots of laughs for our adventure, and the highlight was finding an elk shed above the creek. For supper that evening, we had homemade pizza and cheese sticks. We then headed out to the propane fire pit again.
Sunday morning, we woke up and had breakfast burritos before packing up camp and cleaning the cabin. This was an exceptional weekend full of camaraderie, laughs, great conversations, amazing food from our camp cooks, and a relaxing time of just getting away from everyday life.
in the cool pines of northern Arizona, near Stoneman Lake atApacheMaid. This campout is organized by EmpoweRanch in partnership with the Arizona Elk Society’s Habitat Project. Meals will be provided courtesy of the Arizona Elk Society.
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We are excited to announce a new program for our Heroes Rising Outdoors. We are looking to start a summer/winter hiking series in 2025.
June 26th - Geode Hill/ Waterwheel
July 24th - West Fork Oak Creek
August 28th - Red Mountain
September 25th - Bill Williams Mountain
May 23-25 Wapiti Weekend
June 7-8 White Mountain Chapter Banquet
July 11-12 Northern Arizona Peaks Chapter Banquet
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