State canceling pronghorn antelope season
July 15, 2010
By BRIAN GEHRING Bismarck Tribune
This week pronghorn antelope hunters would have found out if their application for the gun season was successful.
They weren’t — for any antelope hunter — gun or bow.
Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the department will not recommend a hunting season this fall because of back-to-back tough winters and subsequent poor reproduction.
Kreil said department biologists recently completed their annual pronghorn population survey, which shows 37 percent fewer animals than last year and 50 percent fewer than 2008.
Bruce Stillings, the department’s big game biologist in the Dickinson district, said the statewide estimate of pronghorns is down to 6,500.
He said the numbers have been at more than 10,000 antelope since 2003, including two years when there were more than 15,000 animals. Click Link Below for Full Story!
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