Pronghorn

Technical Editor, Richard E. McCabe

Illustrations by Edson Fichter and Daniel P. Metz

Winner of the Wildlife Society's Outstanding Editorship Award for 2005

A Wildlife Management Institute Book

Companion Volume
Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America

"O'Gara and Yoakum's Pronghorn: Ecology and Management, nearly 25 years in the making, has proven to be worth the wait. It is a most worthy addition to the Wildlife Management Institute's widely acclaimed series of thirty books on North American game birds and mammals. I have no doubt that this book will quickly be accorded the nickname of the 'Pronghorn Bible' - it deserves it."
- Jack Ward Thomas, Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Montana, and Chief Emeritus, U.S. Forest Service

"Pronghorn: Ecology and Management is a veritable tour de force in the field of wildlife conservation. The coverage is extraordinary, and I commend the authors for giving us the full fruits of their labors from field and lab and, now, from their pens. This is a first-rate job."
- Eric G. Bolen, co-author of Wildlife Ecology and Management and Ecology of North America

"This excellent book - long in the making - has been worth the wait. A very careful synthesis of the scientific and historical information about pronghorns that is ably supported by authors from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, this book is of greater interest than its title implies. It has relevance to students of biology from several disciplines, as well as to those primarily interested in the conservation of wildlife. The biological uniqueness of the pronghorn is elucidated in detail, but so is the nature of successful wildlife conservation. One is a great scientific - the other a great cultural - achievement of North Americans and clearly relevant to today's global problem of how to use nature without abusing it. This is a monumental work that will be relevant for a very long time to come and a tribute to its editors and authors."
- Valerius Geist, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, University of Calgary

"In [Pronghorn], 30 years in the making, readers learn about the distribution, physiology, nutrition, diseases, and hunting of what people have mistakenly called 'antelope' for centuries. The massive book also explains what state and federal agencies have learned as they try to manage a prairie animal on a landscape now largely devoid of prairie."
- Montana Outdoors

One of the fastest land animals on Earth (second only to the cheetah), the pronghorn can reach speeds of more than 50 miles per hour. It also is one of the most fascinating of all animals. For many people, the pronghorn was nearly as much a symbol of the American West as was the bison; for some, it still is. Eliminated from much of its historic range by the early 1900s, this unique North American big game species has experienced a remarkable recovery and now is found throughout the western United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. Thirty years in the making, Pronghorn: Ecology and Management contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the behavior, physiology, migration, taxonomy, and management of this extraordinary animal.

Full chapters are devoted to distribution, nutrition and food, diseases and parasites, ecosystem management, hunting, and much more. The principal authors - the world's preeminent pronghorn biologists, Bart W. O'Gara and Jim D. Yoakum - conclude with a thorough discussion of the future of pronghorn and their management. With 23 chapters that include contributions by 10 other wildlife professionals and more than 850 illustrations, including original artwork by Edson Fichter and Daniel P. Metz, Pronghorn: Ecology and Management is certain to be the definitive work on the species for years to come.

Jim D. Yoakum, retired, was the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's first wildlife biologist.

The late Bart W. O'Gara led the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana, Missoula.