![]() After attending Cowboy Christmas the past few years, I had some expectations about booths that I wanted to visit, so my first concern was to try and get the “lay of the land”. Sure enough, there was a bus waiting, perfect timing.Ĭowboy Christmas was bigger than I could’ve imagined. We knew where the rodeo shuttles left – so we got some coffee and went to the shuttle stop around 9:15am to try and be on the first bus to the Convention Center. We arrived on Wednesday evening, and decided to go to Cowboy Christmas as our first stop on Thursday morning. We stayed at the Mirage for our first 3 nights, because we love to watch the excitement of the NFR after party! We’re boomers (that’s a nice way of saying we’re in the 55+ generation) – so we rarely stay out till midnight, but it’s fun to watch people and the concert. Take it from the event planner I used to be. While moving to another side of the convention center may sound like just a logistical thing, it is ever so much more. Last year was a huge year as Cowboy Christmas moved to the South Side of the convention center, and NFR experience started bus services from select hotels to the convention center. Go to and use the promo code, “mossyoak” to receive 20% off the normal price of onX’s Premium or Elite memberships.This is about 1/8 of the size of Cowboy Christmas! It’s so big it takes multiple pics!įor my first blog, lets talk about Cowboy Christmas. Original reporting courtesy of RMEF image courtesy of the Missoula Current.ĭownload now from your app store and Hunt Smart.įor a limited time, onX Maps is offering a 20% discount code only for Mossy Oak’s fans toward the purchase of its revolutionary GPS mapping tool designed specifically for hunters. Discover why “Hunting Is Conservation™” at or 800-CALL ELK. RMEF works to open and improve public access, funds and advocates science-based resource management to ensure the future of America’s hunting heritage. Since its founding in 1984, RMEF has conserved more than 8.1 million acres for elk and other wildlife. Siegfried accepted the award at a recent RMEF big-game banquet in Missoula, Montana. “We thank and salute him for his passion and dedication.” He has worked tirelessly to expand public access, and the onX sponsorships and support of our projects generated thousands of memberships and hundreds of thousands of dollars to further our mission,” added Decker. “Eric is a proud hunter, RMEF life member and conservationist. “His dedication to elk country, hunters and conservation, and RMEF, is paramount. “No one has done more to give hunters and other recreationists supreme confidence to know exactly where they stand in the backcountry or on a mountain ridge than Eric Siegfried,” said Steve Decker, RMEF chief revenue officer. ![]() ![]() with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to lobby Federal-land policymakers to implement long-overdue improvements to public-land access. Siegfried is a champion of public-land access. RMEF uses onXmap technology as a hands-on project tool, which strengthens RMEF’s impact across elk country. The app continuously loads new information, including RMEF projects and land-access points, opening the door for hunters to learn and explore new landscapes. His company launched the onXmaps’ Hunt App in 2013, transforming smartphones into map-based GPS units. His work, the onX Chip, allowed GPS users to instantly border-identify public and private lands. Siegfried’s spark of genius revolutionized hunting, unlocking one of the most troubling issues faced by traditional outdoorsmen – and since its premier in 2009 the company has dedicated more than $1 million to conservation.Īs a young engineer and lifelong hunter, Siegfried loaded state-land ownership maps onto micro SD cards, then adapted them to Garmin GPS receivers. Mossy Oak congratulates our friend Eric Siegfried, the inventive founder of onXmaps, for his selection as the 2021 Conservationist of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation ( RMEF).
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