STATUS OF THE PROXGHORNED ANTELOPE, 1922-1924 
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The detailed information concerning the distribution and number of antelope 
now in California has been supplied mainly by M. Hall McAllister, of the 
California Academy of Sciences ; George Neale, executive officer of the Cali- 
fornia Fish and Game Commission ; and F. E. Garlough, of the rodent-control 
section of the Biological Survey. 
The distribution of antelope in California is approximately as follows 
(fig. 4) : 
1. John O. Miller reported on February 2S, 1923, that the Mount Dome herd 
contained about 118 antelope. They range on the plains in the southern end 
of Lower Klamath Lake, near Mount Dome, in Siskiyou County, probably the 
most favorable area in California for perpetuating antelope under natural 
conditions. For some years the herd has had the attention of the Stare fish 
and game commission and other conservationists, as set forth above, and with 
the destruction of preda- 
tory animals in that dis- 
trict should increase in 
numbers. 
2. The Lassen County 
antelope, scattered in nu- 
merous small bands on 
Madeline Plains, in Dixie 
Valley, Secret Valley, and 
other points, range east- 
ward into the Smoke 
Creek Desert of Nevada. 
These were counted by W. 
J. Lee, who reported on 
September 29, 1923, that 
they aggregated 861 ani- 
mals. Since then it has 
been reported that most of 
these animals have crossed 
the State boundary into 
the adjacent part of 
Nevada, as a result of fail- 
ing forage due to the ex- 
cessively dry season of 
1924. They will undoubt- 
edly return with the res- 
toration of more favorable 
conditions. 
3. In 1922 two small 
bands, totaling 29 animals, 
were reported as ranging 
between Mendota and Pa- 
noche Creek, on the west 
side of the San Joaquin 
Valley, in Fresno County. 
4. A band of about 30 was located in 1922 between Granite TVells and Rands- 
burg, on the Mohave Desert, in San Bernardino County. 
5. In 1922 a band of 11 lived in Antelope Valley on the Kern-Los Angeles 
refuge, ranging over adjacent parts of Kern and Los Angeles Counties. In 
April. 1924, 13 were reported as having been seen between Willow Springs 
and Liebre Pcanch, on the west side of the valley in Kern County. 
G. A band of 5 was reported in 1922 ranging in the desert north of the State 
highway between Campo and Imperial, in Imperial and San Diego Counties. 
These animals probably range back and forth across the Mexican border. 
COLORADO 
Fig. 4.- 
-Distribution of antelope in California, esti- 
mated at 1,057, in six areas 
The plains of Colorado formerly abounded in antelope. It is surprising 
that with the long-continued occupation of this State by farmers and stock- 
men bands of antelope still survived up to October, 1923, in 2S localities, ag- 
gregating approximately 1.233 animals. This indicates an interest in or at 
