Event Details

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Registration

Early Registration (by June 29) $425.00
Regular Registration $475.00
One Day – Tuesday $200.00
One Day – Thursday $150.00
Students $250.00

Registration Rates: The full registration fee includes access to all sessions, an offsite field trip, reception with snacks on Monday, Breakfast Tuesday-Thursday, Lunch Tuesday and Wednesday, and a Banquet Dinner on Wednesday. A single day registration includes access to programming and any included meals for that day. The field trip and banquet are included with full registrations only, but guests of full registrants will be permitted to purchase guest tickets to the Wednesday banquet.

Lodging

Event Location: Great Wolf Lodge in Colorado Springs

• Website: https://www.greatwolf.com/colorado-springs

Lodging Info: The workshop has negotiated a group rate for attendees. Rooms are available for $168.00 per night plus taxes.
Booking Lodging: Attendees must make their own lodging reservations, and may only do so in the following ways:
Option 1: Book your room online via the Great Wolf Lodge Website using the Offer Code 2608WAFB to get the group rate. See how here!
Option 2: Call The Great Wolf Lodge at (844) 553-9653 and be sure to mention “WAFWA Pronghorn Workshop” to access the group rate.

Getting to Great Wolf Lodge: Colorado Springs has a small airport (COS) with direct service from multiple major hubs. The closest major airport is Denver (DIA), about a 1-hour and 15-minute drive from Great Wolf Lodge. There is a shuttle service available for a flat fare between DIA and the Colorado Springs area.
For those driving in, Great Wolf Lodge is extending free parking to all guests.

Booking Lodging: Attendees must make their own lodging reservations, and may only do so in the following ways:

Getting to Great Wolf Lodge: Colorado Springs has a small airport (COS) with direct service from multiple major hubs. The closest major airport is Denver (DIA), about a 1-hour and 15-minute drive from Great Wolf Lodge. There is a shuttle service available for a flat fare between DIA and the Colorado Springs area.

For those driving in, Great Wolf Lodge is extending free parking to all guests.

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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

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)