The North American Pronghorn Foundation

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The American pronghorn is North America’s most unique big game animal, a Great Plains living relic from the end of the Ice Age—a creature of speed, agility and beauty that once shared the landscape with the American cheetah, lions, dire wolves, steppe bison. The pronghorn has outlasted them all to become an icon of the wide open spaces and a species honored and beloved (if sometimes cursed in frustration) by anyone who has ever hunted them.

But now, the pronghorn, like the American Great Plains ecosystem, needs our help. Beset by the disruption of migration corridors, the conversion of prairie to farmland, development of every kind, loss of sagebrush steppe to fire and invasive plants, ill-considered fences, and the list of challenges goes on. Each challenge has a solution. Join us for a conversation with hunter-conservationists Erik Dippold of Washington state, and Brock Wahl of North Dakota, and learn about the newly launched American Pronghorn Foundation, a BHA partner-org dedicated to making sure this ancient and noble species thrives in our fast-changing world.

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0:00.0	These are incredible things that we have based on somebody else's hard work in the past,
0:08.5	and you can have a part in keeping it going.
0:12.2	This is something that you can actually do.
0:14.8	You can actually have an effect that you can see that is overwhelmingly positive
0:20.6	and carries own into the future.
0:22.8	Like that's something larger than ourselves.
0:25.7	You know, we are a participatory government.
0:27.6	You know, being a citizen in this country is not, you know, you can't be a freeloader, right?
0:32.7	Like if you, if you were just going to let life come at you or let decisions be made for you, well, then you can't be upset by the results.
0:41.0	You see horses starving to death piled up in a dried out waterhole.
0:44.8	I mean, you know, I don't think anyone in their right mind who's a horse advocate would look at that and say that that's the end they want for those animals.
0:53.1	We're probably a little late to the game, but I think now people are starting to realize like, holy smokes, we are, you know, we are having an impact on these things and we are getting to a point where we got to step up and do something about it. And specifically, you know, we talk about the 1.3 million acres of sagebrush that we lose every year or the nearly one million acres of native grasslands that we lose every year in this country.
1:11.6	You know, those are not sustainable figures.
1:16.9	Hey, everybody, it's Hal Herring, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast and blast. Thanks for being
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1:44.2	I've got my first one a couple years ago.
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