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Sept. 21, 2010 Sul Ross Receives TPWD Grant to Address Pronghorn
Decline ALPINE — In an effort to investigate an alarming and
unexplained decline of pronghorn in far West Texas, the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department has awarded a 3-year $111,210
grant to the Borderlands Research Institute for Natural Resource
Management at Sul Ross State University. The goal of the project
is to identify possible causes for the declining pronghorn herds
and to evaluate two competing hypothesis regarding pronghorn
survival and productivity. Other funding partners include
various Chapters of Safari Club International from across the
country including the West Texas (Midland/Odessa), Lubbock, Paso
del Norte (El Paso), Southern New Mexico (Roswell), and
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) chapters. In the desert Southwest,
pronghorn populations ebb and flow with rainfall. Pronghorn
numbers across the Trans-Pecos have b