Antelope Survey this week

[wa.hunter]

WE are going to attempt to do the Pronghorn surveys this week . Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 25th and 26th. The individuals on this site have been a great help on locations they have been seeing them. Mostly through PM but that works great too.
If there are any current reports that you would like to share that would be great also. This survey will be contucted through an effort with the YN,WDFW and personel from SCI. If some of you are interested in helping let me know and I will attempt to get you involved. The current plan is to meet in Prosser at 7:30 AM on Monday. We will have ground crews working with the airplane that will be flying grids for 2 days over the area from Kennewick to Goldendale. Thanks again for the info and I will post what are results are.

[dontgetcrabs]

Saw a small group last week along the Toppenish creek South of Granger.

[jackelope]

If anyone has info to share with wa.hunter please shoot me a pm and I will get it to him during the survey days Wednesday and Thursday.
Thanks.

[wa.hunter]

I promised to get back with the results and here is what we found last 3 days of last week on both the land based and airplane survey that was done.
Off of the YN lands we saw 63 antelope
On YN lands they found an additional 57 antelope.
Total visually seen was 120, however we know there were a few groups that were not found from the air or ground. We feel it is safe to say that there are around 140+ antelope running around on the eastside. I would be will to say that at least 1/2 of them are now born and raised in Washington and are no longer an intoduced animal. We did also find 1 that had been killed by automobile we believed.
Also SCI is working on new reward posters to get out in the area, as poaching also seem to be a possible issue.
To those of you that suppied information  THANK YOU it was a help.

[go4steelhd]

👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the update. I hope they will thrive 

[Bob33]

About ten percent growth per year, it sounds like.  That's encouraging.

[grundy53]

About ten percent growth per year, it sounds like.  That's encouraging.

good to hear.

[Timberstalker]

10%?  Seems like they were planted in 10' or 11' if my memory serves me correctly.  Seems a bit less than 10%.

[Timberstalker]

Regardless, that's great news.

[Bob33]

10%?  Seems like they were planted in 10' or 11' if my memory serves me correctly.  Seems a bit less than 10%.

From 99 in 2011 to 140 now is 9.8% or about 10%.

[Timberstalker]

10%?  Seems like they were planted in 10' or 11' if my memory serves me correctly.  Seems a bit less than 10%.

From 99 in 2011 to 140 now is 9.8% or about 10%.

I guess I need to read. You said 10% per year. Or about 10 animals per year. That's exactly what it is. Sorry for the mixup.

[fair-chase]

Thanks for the update and the all of the work Wa.hunter. 


Not to get ahead of ourselves; but does anyone know what the threshold is for WDFW to declare a recovered, huntable population?

[jackelope]

There were 99 antelope relocated from Nevada in 2011.

[carpsniperg2]

That's great to hear. I know a few were lost from auto/train kills and they had some poached but other then that they seem to be doing alright. Time to haul in a few more thousand

[sled]

     Thanks for then info.