Study identifies gauntlet of obstacles facing migrating pronghorn in greater Yellowstone
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 12:40
in Biology & Nature
One of North America's last remaining long-distance land migrations, better known as the Path of the Pronghorn, is being threatened by a mosaic of natural gas field development, highway traffic, and fencing in the upper Green River Basin, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. WCS scientists used a model traditionally applied to identify resource related stopovers for migrating animals in order to identify impediments to migration of pronghorn.