Colville Antelope

[boneaddict]

I hear the Colvilles are getting 100 head from Nevada.   That's cool.

[benhuntin]

Where??

[grundy53]

That's great!

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[jasnt]

That is cool

[boneaddict]

don't know, but I'd guess Swahilla basin, Omak lake or maybe the  sand hills. 

[bobcat]

Hmm... what's faster- an antelope or a wolf?

[boneaddict]

Colvilles are doing a much finer job of trimming their wolves than our wdfw.

[WAcoyotehunter]

i think they are putting them in Tumwater basin

[Bob33]

Hmm... what's faster- an antelope or a wolf?

One on one, it's not close.  A pronghorn is the fastest North American animal and one of the fastest in the world. Dealing with a pack would be another issue.

[boneaddict]

Sure enough.  I just found this....interesting, dated dec 23, 2015.   Lol



http://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2015/12/23/news/tribes-to-re-introduce-antelope-to-area/6706.html

[bobcat]

So they're calling it a "re-introduction" and they're saying pronghorn are a native species. But is there really any proof of that? I've done a lot of reading on this subject in the past and I never found anything that said they were 100% sure that pronghorn had ever existed in Washington state.

[Skillet]

"There is enough native habitat on the plateau to support them," said Whitney. "We chose to move forward with the reintroduction at this time since a primary goal of the wildlife program is to restore native and desired non-native species to the Colville Reservation. Pronghorn are a native species to the homelands of our people. Since they have been extirpated from Wash., our tribal members have had to go to other states in order to utilize these animals for subsistence."

Probably falls under the non-native species clause.  Not 100% sure what the "usual and accustomed" range of the tribes that now call the Colville Reservation home actually were, but it is conceivable that some of them used to hunt pronghorn back in the day on those lands.

[Bob33]

So they're calling it a "re-introduction" and they're saying pronghorn are a native species. But is there really any proof of that? I've done a lot of reading on this subject in the past and I never found anything that said they were 100% sure that pronghorn had ever existed in Washington state.

http://www.ynwildlife.org/pronghorn.php

The earliest historic records of pronghorns in Washington include mention in Lewis and Clark’s Journals of Indians hunting on both sides of the Snake River for pronghorns near Clarkston, Washington, near Waitsburg and near The Dalles (McCabe, et al.,2004).  Archeologist Eugene Hunn (1995) reported that “pronghorn antelope were hunted on the plains of the ‘Big Bend’ of the Columbia until shortly after contact.  Deceased Yakama tribal elder, Watson Totus told of pronghorns being hunted near Snipes Mountain during his youth (Washines, 2004).  Bill White, former Yakama Nation archeologist, also reported Indian harvest of pronghorns near White Bluffs on the Columbia River near Richland (White, 2004).  State hunting licenses issued in 1904 allowed the hunter to harvest one antelope as well as an elk and four deer (Johnson, 1975).

Archeological sites within Washington State that contain pronghorn remains include, Chief Joseph Dam near Bridgeport, Umatilla Mammoth near Umatilla, Marme’s Rockshelter and Avey’s Orchard (Osborne, 1953).  Pronghorn remains were also recovered on the Satus Wildlife Area on the Yakama Reservation (Shellenberger, 2009).

[WAcoyotehunter]

Archeologists have found antelope in digs in the Coulee and know they were here, but not for quite a while. 

[LDennis24]

http://www.campusecology.wsu.edu/page_045.htm

The Tribe's Fish and Wildlife page says the SouthWest corner of the area