The Powder River Mulies Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation in Miles City would like to invite you to our 7th annual banquet to raise funds for the conservation of Mule Deer and their habitat in Montana. The Mule Deer population in Montana has had their ups and downs with weather issues, disease, predation and loss of habitat. By joining us at our banquet and/or making a donation, you can help us help the mule deer of Eastern MT so that we can ensure sustainable and huntable populations for generations to come.

MDF is dedicated to the following goals:
•To restore, improve and protect mule deer habitat (including land and easement acquisitions) resulting in self-sustaining, healthy, free ranging and huntable deer populations
•To encourage and support responsible wildlife management with government agencies, private organizations and landowners;
•To promote public education and scientific research related to mule deer and wildlife management;
•To support and encourage responsible and ethical behavior and awareness of issues among those whose actions affect mule deer;
•Acknowledge regulated hunting as a viable component of mule and black-tailed deer conservation.

MDF understands foremost that its goals cannot be accomplished without partnering with members and businesses like yours. This is the reason that I am reaching out to your company. Support can come in many ways:

1) Join us at our 7th annual banquet, this is a great way to entertain your staff and customers (flyers attached).

2) Become a supporting member! We have general membership and lifetime memberships available and our most popular is becoming a Sponsor Member in which you or your company are recognized at our banquet, receive a plaque, sponsor hat and pin as well as a chance at a rifle for every five Sponsor Members the chapter signs. Sponsor Memberships are $250. Lifetime Membership is $1000 and can be paid in quarterly installments if desired.

3) Make a donation to our banquet with merchandise, services you offer, underwriting an item/raffle or a cash donation. We have items ranging from guns to prints that cost $50 to $2000 that could be underwritten. Additionally, we look for support to cover the costs of our banquet dinner. We have two highly visible raffles that may interest you, our annual hat raffle, 50 hats (could be your hat) at $50 apiece and the winner wins a Kimber rifle where they get to pick the caliber. Another highly visible raffle is the best general raffle in the area, 10-12 high end items and a bonus gun, this year a Bushmaster .223 w/red dot scope is the bonus gun. In the case of sponsoring a raffle/game, we would incorporate your name into raffle name, hang a banner above the game, listed you in our program and multiple mentions during the event by the Emcee.

4) For a huge impact in Montana there is the Mule Deer Conservation Partnership program, with a minimum donation of $1,500. 100% of those funds stay in Montana and will be applied to an MDF project here!

Partnering with us, we will promote your company at the event through our banquet program, signage (if you have banners, we will hang them and send back to you), verbally by the MC and any items that are donated or underwritten will be identified with signage.

The Mule Deer Foundation was established in 1988 and continues to expand its footprint as we now have 14 chapters in Montana!! The MDF Chapters in Montana put a total of $123,000 on the ground in 2015 for habitat projects in all regions as well as assisting the state and USFS in three land purchases to enhance public access and conserve habitat (York Gulch – six mining claims that connected a USFS trail to ensure that access in perpaturity. Whitetail Prairie, Beartooth WMA – purchased 2800 acres adjacent to the WMA and opened up an additional 900 acres of previously blocked state land. Jenkins Gulch – a 317 ac private inholding in the middle of the Elkhorns.) Additionally MDF chapters in Montana donated $22,000 to youth shooting teams in MT.

Unlike other big game animals, mule deer have not adapted well to change in their environment. Specifically, as urban areas continue to sprawl and more people build homes in rural settings, mule deer and their habitat suffer. But you can help change the future for mule deer by helping us help the mule deer with funds raised to enhance habitat, rehabilitate habitat and work with private landowners in terms of habitat and hunter access.

Yours in Conservation,

Marshall Johnson
Regional Director
Mule Deer Foundation
2016 Burlington Ave
Billings, MT 59102 Miles City, MT 59301
406-850-8785