NVLongbow
Well-known member
Greatly enjoyed this podcast and just joined the North American Pronghorn Foundation. Thanks for touching on the negative impact that feral horses and burrows are making on pronghorn. Here in Nevada surface water can be very limited and feral equine chase pronghorn off of the few water sources that are located in arid areas.
Randy’s son Matthew was in high school when he drew a Nevada archery antelope tag that I told him to put in for, because I knew of a spring that area that used to have abundant pronghorn using for water, and had built this really nice blind there several years before. It had been some years since I had been there, and when I went out to scout I found the water hole was now super small, packed with horses, and no pronghorn tracks anywhere close. Since it took hours for the different horse herds to water out of a super small puddle, the antelope didn’t stand a chance because horses would chase them off. I dug out the spring so it could collect more water Hoping the horses could drink faster and get out of there sooner. Only one pronghorn used the water hole in the five days we hunted it. The nearest water was 7 miles away and feral horses were decimating it also. Hardly any pronghorn in that area now.
Randy’s son Matthew was in high school when he drew a Nevada archery antelope tag that I told him to put in for, because I knew of a spring that area that used to have abundant pronghorn using for water, and had built this really nice blind there several years before. It had been some years since I had been there, and when I went out to scout I found the water hole was now super small, packed with horses, and no pronghorn tracks anywhere close. Since it took hours for the different horse herds to water out of a super small puddle, the antelope didn’t stand a chance because horses would chase them off. I dug out the spring so it could collect more water Hoping the horses could drink faster and get out of there sooner. Only one pronghorn used the water hole in the five days we hunted it. The nearest water was 7 miles away and feral horses were decimating it also. Hardly any pronghorn in that area now.
