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FOREST AND STREAM 
To Save the Pronghorn Antelope 
The Boone and Crockett Club Takes Steps to Preserve a Rapidly Disappearing Animal 
HE growth of the sentiment in 
behalf of game protection is 
more rapid and more per¬ 
manent than most people un¬ 
derstand. We know through 
many sources of the continued 
efforts in behalf of birds by 
the Audubon Societies, in be¬ 
half of game by the American Game Pro¬ 
tective and Propagation Association, in behalf 
of wild' life generally by the New York 
Zoological Society, but in addition to these, there 
are other associations that are working more 
quietly and yet accomplishing a vast deal of 
good. 
The Boone and. Crockett Club, of which little 
is heard, has taken up the pronghorn antelope, 
and is making great efforts to keep that unique 
species from extermination. Once the antelope’s 
range extended from the Missouri River west to 
the Pacific Coast and from the Saskatchewan 
south into Mexico. In early days i-t was, in the 
belief of many an old-timer, more abundant on 
the plains than was the buffalo. When white 
people began to move into the western country, 
and to establish farms and build fences, this 
great range began to contract, and before long 
the antelope began to disappear. Laws urged by 
far-sighted people to protect the species, like 
many other game laws, were not enforced. For 
years the antelope has been steadily decreasing in 
numbers, so that it is no longer found over most 
of its old range. This is a great misfortune. 
Several years ago the Boone and Crockett 
Club determined that new herds of antelope 
ought to be established on certain Government 
reservations. Permission was secured from the 
Secretary of the Interior to have some antelope 
caught alive in the Yellowstone Park, and two 
shipments were made, one to the Wichita Game 
Preserve, in Oklahoma, the other to the Bison 
Range, in western Montana, the Club paying the 
cost of capturing, crating and transporting the 
antelope. Again, this year, the Club secured 
permission from the Canadian authorities to cap¬ 
ture some antelope in Alberta, had the work 
done, and shipped a small herd to the Wind 
Cave National Park, in South Dakota—an old 
antelope range where the animals are assured of 
protection from the hunter, and should do well. 
There are thus now two new herds of antelopu 
in the west which we may hope to see increase. 
Each of these herds is located in country where 
the animal is native, and each is under fence, and 
yet has ample range. It is to be hoped that they 
do well and increase, for, except in Nevada and 
Arizona, the antelope is now an almost forgotten 
species. 
The efforts made by the Boone and Crockett 
Club to preserve this rapidly disappearing species 
cannot be too warmly praised. They furnish an 
example of persistent, well-directed effort which 
may well be imitated by other game protectors in 
this country. G. 
T HE annual meeting and dinner of the Boone 
and Crockett Club was held on the even¬ 
ing of Thursday, February 4th, at the 
University Club, New York. About fifty mem¬ 
bers and guests were present. 
The officers elected for the ensuing year were 
Major W. Austin Wadsworth, Geneseo, New 
York, president; Arnold Hague, W. B. Dever- 
eux, Archibald Rogers, Geo. Bird Grinnell and 
Madison Grant, vice-presidents; Henry G. Gray, 
secretary; W. Redmond Cross, treasurer; mem- 
Pronghorn Antelope in Yellowstone Park. 
