31st Pronghorn Workshop
August 17, 2026 - August 20, 2026
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Pronghorn Workshop is a biennial meeting held in even numbered years sanctioned by WAFWA. The workshop provides a forum where leading pronghorn managers and researchers share research results, management strategies, and emerging issues in the realms of pronghorn management throughout North America. The Pronghorn Workshop began in 1965!
You are invited to attend the 31st Biennial Pronghorn Workshop. This year’s meeting will be hosted by Colorado Parks and Wildlife in Colorado Springs, Colorado from August 17-20, 2026
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A WAFWA Sanctioned Workshop
The Pronghorn Workshop is a biennial meeting held in even numbered years sanctioned by WAFWA. The workshop provides a forum where leading pronghorn managers and researchers share research results, management strategies, and emerging issues in the realms of pronghorn management throughout North America. The Pronghorn Workshop began in 1965 as the Antelope States Workshop. View the Bylaws (PDF, 71 KB).
Publications
Pronghorn Management Guidelines
Pronghorn Management Guidelines, 5th Edition
Biological and management principles and practices designed to sustain pronghorn populations in the USA, México, and Canada.
Recommended Citation:
Yoakum, J. D., P. F. Jones, J. Cancino, R. J. Guenzel, R. Seidler, A. Munguia-Vega, I. Cassaigne, and M. Culver. 2014. Pronghorn management guides. Fifth edition. Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ Pronghorn Workshop and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. 159 pp.
View the Pronghorn Bibliography
Awards
The Berrendo Award
The Berrendo Award is the most prestigious recognition offered through the Pronghorn Workshop. Berrendo is derived from the Spanish word for pronghorn—North America’s prairie speedster— that epitomizes the difficulty of being a remaining Pleistocene native in a modern world. The award will be bestowed on an individual or a group of collaborators/team that made major contributions to pronghorn ecology and management.
Award criteria include:
- First choice will be given to a nominee that is either retired or deceased. Additional outstanding and exceptional candidates will also be considered.
- Contribution(s) by nominees can be a lifetime (>10 years) career directly involved in pronghorn research or management.
- Contribution(s) can be a major publication(s), including books, chapters of books, special reports, monographs, or other publications that have regional or range-wide significance.
- Contribution(s) needs to have afforded significant scientific advancement in the management or research of pronghorn.
- The contribution can represent either a single event or a long-term commitment to pronghorn.
Previous Winners of the Berrendo Award:
2002: Jim Yoakum (retired BLM), Verdi, Nevada
2004: Bart O’Gara (deceased, Univ. of Montana Fish & Wildlife Coop. Unit), Lolo, MT 2006: Tom Pojar (retired Colorado Division of Wildlife), Kremmling, Colorado
2008: Richard Ockenfels (retired Arizona Game and Fish Department), Mayer, Arizona
2010: Rich Guenzel (retired Wyoming Game and Fish Department), Laramie, Wyoming
2012: None
2014: Tommy Hailey (retired Texas Parks and Wildlife Department), Alpine, Texas
2016: Jorge Cancino (Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Nosoeste, Baja California Sur, Mexico
2018: John A Byers (University of Idaho), Moscow, Idaho
2022: David E. Brown (Arizona Game and Fish Department, Deceased 2021)
Special Recognition Award
The Special Recognition Award was created to honor the many people, teams or organizations that have made worthy contributions that aid in the conservation of pronghorn. These can include projects that are oriented to pronghorn management, research or appreciation.
Award criteria include:
- Nominee should be living and currently/recently active and involved in pronghorn conservation.
- Contribution(s) should be an important event or accumulation of important contributions to pronghorn management, research, or appreciation.
- Contribution(s) can be a new field or analytical technique that has regional or range -wide application.
Previous Special Recognition Award Recipients:
2002: Karl Menzel (NE), Jorge Cancino (BCS, MX), Bill Rudd (WY), Richard Ockenfels (AZ)
2004: Rich Guenzel (WY), Alice Koch (CA), John Hervert (AZ), Arizona Antelope Foundation (AZ)
2006: Rick Danvir (UT), Fred Lindzey (WY), Rick Miller (AZ)
2008: Morley Barrett (Alb, Canada), David Brown (AZ)
2014: Joe Riis (SD), Hall Sawyer (WY), and Emilene Ostlind (WY)
2016: Jorge Cancino (Mexico), Paul Jones (AB)
2018: Bill Rudd (WY), Matt Kauffman (WY), Ken Gray (NV), Tom Warren (NV), Charlie Clements (NV), Jim Young (NV)
2022: Arizona Antelope Foundation, Arizona Game and Fish Department, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and Dr. Andrew Jakes (MT)
Pronghorn Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame was created to honor historic individuals or groups/teams that accomplished outstanding services for pronghorn conservation prior to the establishment of the Berrendo Award (pre-2002). Those involved in pronghorn conservation today owe much to the efforts of pronghorn biologists, managers, researchers, and other conservationists that produced worthy efforts prior to the establishments of any awards. The Pronghorn Hall of Fame awards are an ongoing effort to formally recognize the careers and long-term contributions of our predecessors.
Criteria for presenting this award include:
- The nominee must be retired or deceased (criteria accepted at 2006 Pronghorn Workshop).
- An inductee may be a pronghorn advocate, a land manager, an agency biologist, an academic, an artist, or various combinations thereof.
- Nominee’s career should have contributed to increases in pronghorn numbers, distribution, knowledge of, or appreciation.
- Pronghorn conservation must have been a paramount part of nominee’s career (criteria accepted at 2006 Pronghorn Workshop).
- Contributions must be of historic significance to the management, research, or conservation of pronghorn.
- Contributions should have regional, national, or international value or application.
- Contributions can be scientific or popular books, chapters of major books, a monograph, agency/organization special reports, or a number of articles (>5) in scientific or popular journals.
- Contribution(s) can be an important scientific advancement in either a field or analytical technique.
- All Berrendo Award winners will automatically be inducted into the Pronghorn Hall of Fame, either upon retirement or passing.
Previous Hall of Fame Inductees:
- Jim D. Yoakum and Bart W. O’Gara (2002 and 2004 Berrendo Award recipients) automatically inducted.
- Tom M. Pojar (2006 Berrendo Award recipient)
- Arthur S. Einarsen (OR), Helmut K. Buechner (TX), and T. Paul Russell (NM) (2008 elected as members).
- Richard A. Ockenfels (2008 Berrendo Award recipient).
- Rich Guenzel (2010 Berrendo Award recipient).
- Tommy Hailey (2014 Berrendo Award recipient)
- Jorge Cancino (2016 Berrendo Award recipient)
- William Hepworth (2016 selected member)
- John A. Byers (2018 Berrendo Award recipient)
- David E. Brown (deceased, 2022 Berrendo Award recipient)
- Edson Fichter (Idaho State University, deceased 1994)