Bridger-Teton National Forest sued for failure to analyze new projects blocking the path of the pronghorn-
According to the Western Watersheds Project, the Bridger-Teton N.F. was talking up a good story how they were going the protect the “path of the pronghorn” which runs from the Wyoming desert, where they winter, northward to Jackson Hole [...]
Continue Reading →Unlike deer and pronghorn, are elk trapped forever in the high mountain valley?
The big mountain valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming is so high and cold that elk did not winter there before Euro-American settlement blocked the late fall migration routes out and settlers eventually began to feed elk at what became the National Elk [...]
Continue Reading →This year of no spring delayed migration from Wyoming’s high desert for weeks-
The famed Jackson Hole pronghorn herd which winters in the high desert 150 miles to the south has been beleaguered by natural gas development and subdivsions. In recent years, Wyoming Game and Fish and numerous other interests have worked to keep millenia-old [...]
Continue Reading →The never-ending winter in the Northern Rockies hits deer, elk, moose, pronghorn hard-
During the winter, I made a number of posts about the hard conditions for ungulates in the Northern Rockies. The failure of spring to arrive is causing deaths to continue and grow.
Record wildlife die-offs reported in Northern Rockies. Reuters. By [...]
Continue Reading →Severe winter in Eastern Montana is taking huge toll on pronghorn, other ungulates-
In deep snow, antelope often seek out railroad tracks and highways so they can move. When a train comes, and fences on both sides, hundreds can die; and they are, right now.
Herds of desperate ungulates dying on Montana railroads, [...]
Continue Reading →Elk, deer, and pronghorn being fed since January 1-
Idaho Fish and Game doesn’t like to feed, but deep snow and frozen snow after a melt has prompted off and on feeding. Some of it is to keep the wild animals away from farms.
Continue Reading →Pronghorn and mule deer hit hard-
Winter takes a toll on northeastern Montana wildlife. By Brett French. Billings Gazette.
I posted a news release from ID Fish and Game the other day about winter conditions and wildlife in Eastern Idaho, but hardly anyone read it. [...]
Continue Reading →The Cattle Association opposes the release-
Pronghorns released for new start on Yakama Indian Reservation. Ancient inhabitants are of the Columbia Basin. Rich Landers. The Spokesman-Review. [ed. note to Spokesman-Review, the plural of pronghorn is pronghorn]
Good for the Safari Club! It appears that when the cattle association took their traditional [...]
Continue Reading →Finally, it looks like a real effort to keep antelope bottlenecks west of Pinedale from closing-
Over the years, we have written about the Trapper’s Point pronghorn migration bottleneck a number of times. There has been growing awareness that the thousands-of-year-old antelope migration from the Wyoming high desert over the Gros Ventre each year, down [...]
Continue Reading →Commission calls it “too expensive, unnecessary and bad for recreation and the environment”-
This proposal is so obnoxious I couldn’t believe it was real the first time I heard about it. This is a world class fishing river and the reservoir would cut off the famed pronghorn migration route from the Red Desert to Grand [...]
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