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Medjetassist Names Hunter Outdoor Communications Public Relations Agency
HOC Will Be The Agency Of Record For The Outdoor, Hunting &Amp; Fishing Industries.

MedjetAssist

Birmingham, AL —-(AmmoLand.com)- MedjetAssist, the nation’s leading emergency medical evacuation and repatriation membership program, announced today that it has chosen Hunter Outdoor Communications to be its public relations agency of record for the outdoor, hunting and fishing markets. HOC, a public relations agency specializing in the outdoor, marine and hunting industries, is headquartered in San Antonio, TX, and it has an East Coast office in Richmond, VA. The appointment is effective September 1.

The public relations program will encompass the development and implementation of an aggressive communications program focusing on the company’s unique air medical transportation membership program and how it applies to the outdoor, fishing and hunting industries.

“We are very excited to be actively addressing the outdoor markets, as they are very important to us. We believe that HOC is the perfect company to bring Medjet and its membership services the recognition that it needs in these areas,” said Roy Berger, president and CEO, Medjet. “The team at Hunter Outdoor Communications has the experience and contacts necessary to make things happen very quickly. We have some big announcements coming that are very exciting for us. We are relying on them to get the word out.”

HOC will be working in conjunction with Medjet’s New York City – based travel and tourism marketing and public relations agency, Geoffrey Weill & Associates, to expand into the outdoor markets.

About MedjetAssist
MedjetAssist is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program for travelers. If a member is hospitalized more than 150 miles from home—virtually anywhere in the world—MedjetAssist reviews his or her condition both with the attending medical staff and the member’s own physicians, and will arrange for medical transportation back to the hospital of his or her choice at no additional cost. MedjetAssist has it corporate headquarters in Birmingham, AL, and was recently named the exclusive provider of worldwide air ambulance and medical repatriation services for AARP. For additional information visit www.medjet.com.

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Elk Foundation Files Motion to Intervene in Wolf Litigation

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

MISSOULA, Mont.—-(AmmoLand.com)- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has filed a motion in Missoula federal court to enter an amicus curiae brief supporting state-regulated wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana. If the motion is granted by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, RMEF documents will be considered in Molloy’s decision on whether to allow or sto

p the hunt.

A hearing is scheduled for Monday and a ruling could follow soon afterward.

A coalition of 13 environmental groups filed an emergency injunction asking Molloy to stop the planned hunt and return wolves to the endangered species list.

“Long gone are the days when species like elk, bears and wolves can go completely unmanaged. We don’t live in a zoo and this isn’t the old West. It is frustrating that America’s wildlife conservation system, which has worked wonderfully well since the time of Theodore Roosevelt, has been reduced to a legal chess match,” said David Allen, RMEF president and CEO.

Allen said the Elk Foundation’s brief reinforces four main points:

• • Historic success of modern, hunter-based conservation in North America.
• • Viewpoints of hunters who continue to pay for the big-game resources that made wolf recovery possible.
• • RMEF-funded research, along with other scientific and anecdotal evidence, showing that wolf populations are fully recovered and that, where wolves are present with elk, wolves are having detrimental impacts on elk.
• • State wildlife agencies are best suited to manage wolves alongside other species.

Allen urged Wyoming and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work together on a mutually agreeable wolf management plan to help clear a legal path to regulated wolf hunting in The Cowboy State.

About the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation:
Snowy peaks, dark timber basins and grassy meadows. RMEF is leading an elk country initiative that has conserved or enhanced habitat on over 5.6 million acres—a land area equivalent to a swath three miles wide and stretching along the entire Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico. RMEF also works to open, secure and improve public access for hunting, fishing and other recreation. Get involved at www.rmef.org or 800-CALL ELK.

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