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Pronghorn Deaths Baffle Conservationists

April 26, 2012 5:57 am by: Mose Buchele

Texas Pronghorn mostly live in the Trans-Pecos region. Photo courtesy Louis Harveson of the Borderlands Research InstituteTexas Pronghorn mostly live in the Trans-Pecos region. Photo courtesy Louis Harveson of the Borderlands Research Institute

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The pronghorn thrives in many parts of the Midwest. But it’s fast disappearing from Texas. For StateImpact Texas, KUT’s Mose Buchele reports on a race against the clock to save this powerful symbol of the American frontier.

“We got dealt a horrible hand, drought, heat, wildfires, everything but waves of locusts have come down to West Texas and made this a very difficult year for restoration.”

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