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in other words, the club wants to be able to take unverifiable credit for everything. this does not belong in a wiki article as it suggests that they have numerous unverifiable accomplishments
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Key members of the club have included [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[George Bird Grinnell]], [[Madison Grant]], [[Charles Alexander Sheldon]], [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], [[Gifford Pinchot]], [[Frederick Russell Burnham]], [[Charles Deering]] and [[Aldo Leopold]].<ref>[http://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/American-Big-Game-in-Its-Haunts6/#p139 American Big Game: Members of the Boone and Crockett Club]</ref>
 
Today the Club continues its role as a think-tank, known to the public primarily for maintaining a scoring and data collection system by which native North American [[Big-game hunting|big game]] animals are measured and tracked as a gauge of successful wildlife management. As written in the Club's history; ''"Personnel of the club often acted as key men behind the scenes in promoting some measure and were not unwilling to have history record the credit to some other organization. Their main concern was doing all possible to successfully promote good legislation regardless of' who got the credit."''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sheldon|first1=Charles|title=History of the Boone and Crockett Club|date=1954}}</ref>
 
The structure of the Club consists of 17 staff members, 100 Regular Members, 159 Professional Members, and thousands of Club Associates.
 
The Club is headquartered in [[Missoula, Montana]], which is also the home of the [[Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation]].