Submitted Photo Greg Stack, Minot, with an impressive pronghorn antelope taken during the recent season. The horns measure 15 inches, placing it among the largest ever harvested in North Dakota.

No sight is more emblematic of Western hunting than a pronghorn buck with jet-black horns staring back at you, poised to prance across the prairie at 70 mph. But just how good of a trophy is he?

Misreading these American originals could tank your hunt. Yes, pronghorn are classified as big game and may be labeled next to deer in game regulations, but the similarities end there. Clear up the ...

“The record is around twenty inches. I believe, but we’re not likely to see one that big.” Another Western guide had once told me that the pronghorn is saturated with curiosity, and that any hunter ...

In a way, the seeds for the pronghorn’s recovery were planted by Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, the legendary socialite and gardener who, in the 1930s, first advocated for a network of protected areas in the ...

The poor timing of reproduction to precipitation (and, thus, to forage phenology) in the southwestern United States will likely always limit productivity and survival of pronghorn relative to northern ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

Goetting is charged with two counts of illegally taking a big game or trophy animal ... Court documents say Goetting confessed to killing a buck mule deer and a pronghorn antelope. He said he used a ...

These events are hosted by the Big Sky Astronomy Club and feature evenings ... bighorn sheep, bison, pronghorn, bald eagles, and many more species of mammals and birds. At one time, as many ...

Throughout these landscapes, you might encounter mule deer, mountain goats, pronghorn antelope ... you should also check out ...