 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation supplied 844,662 dollars in grant funding to bolster elk habitat while life management and hunting heritage projects in a number of states including Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Most records indicate the last elk were around about the time of the Civil War. And so we've had a long span where there were no elk in the Appalachian region as a whole. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, beginning in the late 1990s, partnered with state wildlife agencies in these regions to reintroduce elk back into the landscape. Kentucky is the greatest success story in the East. RMEF raised over $250,000 on its own through banquets and that number was matched by their partners. The money awarded will be used to create wildlife openings and meadows, conduct prescribed burnings and remove invasive vegetation. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation operates banquets all across the United States. And we have those here in Kentucky, as well as our neighboring states and anyone that would like to attend to know that those dollars go directly back onto the ground. Any fundraising dollars from those banquets that we use to fund grants just like this to improve the quality of habitat for elk and improve the hunting experience really for sportsmen and women in Kentucky and everywhere else. For more information, you can visit RMEF.org. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Fidele.