Oops. There are almost no antelope on the Pinedale Anticline now, after more than 100 gas wells drilled in the last fifteen or so years.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...-migration-gas-wells

Now it may get worse...

The Texas Panhandle is home to thousands of oil ad gas wells and thousands of Pronghorn.

They seem to get along fine together.

There is also farming and ranching plus a few towns, highways and lots of county roads.

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Originally posted by crshelton:
The Texas Panhandle is home to thousands of oil ad gas wells and thousands of Pronghorn.

Not sure what's different, but from 20-odd years of hunting the Pinedale Anticline, I can tell you it isn't working the same way there.

I suspect the main difference is related to the northern herd's need to migrate. I don't imagine TX goats have to migrate with the weather. If they're like their NM brethren, they can be successful in a relatively (to WY) local area. If they had to migrate 170 miles every year through the gas fields and windmills and back yards and highways they may be facing similar problems as the WY herd.

They travel near Daniel WY along the way, which regularly makes the newspaper as the lowest temperature in the continental United States.
It was -17 degrees yesterday, warmed up from much lower a week or so ago.

go to the east side of 191.
all the song birds they couldn't find in the Jonah field and most of the deer are over there too.
or just stay south of 53 you only got like 650 square miles of desert right there to look in.