Registration

$400 early bird registration (by May 10, 2024)
$450 regular registration (after May 10, 2024)
$300 student registration
$15 Thursday field trip (limited space)

Registration fees include: access to all sessions, reception with Snacks on Monday, all Breakfast/Lunch/Dinners/Snack Tuesday & Wednesday, and Breakfast Thursday.

Participation in the field trip incurs a small additional fee.

Lodging

Reserve early to guarantee a room and conference rates.

• Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, Oregon
  $191.00 per night (plus taxes and fees)
  Room block held until May 31, 2024 or until sold out (whichever comes first)
• Booking Lodging:
  • Attendees must make their own lodging reservations and may only do so via phone. 
  • Please contact Eagle Crest Resort at 855-682-4786 and be sure to mention “WAFWA Pronghorn Workshop” to access the group rate.
• Eagle Crest offers a complimentary shuttle to and from the Redmond Airport. Rideshare services in the area can be limited, so it is recommended attendees take advantage of this service. Attendees must contact the front desk in advance with their arrival/departure times to ensure the shuttle can accommodate them. Please call 541-923-2453.

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Workshops Proceeding (1965 - Today)

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Publications

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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

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)

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)