Pronghorn

  • Evidence is that wolves are protecting pronghorn with their hostility to coyotes

    Ralph Maughan

    Presence of wolves helps survival of pronghorn fawn, normally a major prey item for coyotes- Wolves have a complicated relationship to their prey and to competing carnivores and omnivores such as bears. Simple statements such as every animal a wolf kills is one less for a hunter are fantasy.  In reality wolves can directly or…

  • Missouri River cuts off pronghorn from fawning grounds

    Ralph Maughan

    Thousands died this winter, hundreds since trying to swim the mile wide river- We covered this wildlife disaster last winter, though in a general way. Spring has not ended it. Missouri River cuts off pronghorn from fawning grounds. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune

  • Winter takes toll on northeastern Montana wildlife

    Ralph Maughan

    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.  I took it down. I’ll watch this one to see…

  • Wyoming to spend $9.7M to protect pronghorn

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

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