

UNITED STATESlEMTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1346 



Washington, D. C. y August, 1925 



STATUS OF THE PRONGHORNED ANTELOPE, 1922-1924 



EDWARD W. NELSON, Chief, Bureau of Biological Survey - 



CONTENTS 



Page 



The Pronghorned Antelope 1 



Former and Present Abundance of Pronghorns 1 



Characteristics of the American Antelope .• . 4 



Chosen Habitat 7 



Conservation and Control 8 



Conservation Organizations and the Antelope 9 



Washington Conference on the Conservation of the Pronghorn . . 11 



Establishment of Antelope Refuges in Nevada 14 



Proposed Owyhee Antelope and Sage-Hen Refuge, Idaho 15 



Restocking Experiments, 1924 16 



Methods of Capturing and Transplanting Antelope 18 



.Results of a Census of Existing Antelope 22 



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