South of I-10, just west of exit 42. Maybe 10 or so walking south. I know they range into northern Chihuahua, but I’ve never seen them this far south.
I see them regularly in the central and northern parts of NM, and further south than that in Texas.
There are pronghorns in California, mostly in the northeastern part of the state. I’ve seen them as far south as the Carrizo Plain.
The Carrizo Plains population was reintroduced in the 1990s.
I’ve never seen a pronghorn in the wild, I’m jealous of you all!
If I’d bothered checking the map on the wiki article I would have seen that they can be found very far south into Mexico, including a Baja subspecies.
Apparently they’re more closely related to giraffes than they are Eurasian antelopes.
We have quite a few on our SE Colorado ranch. Some come and go but there are a number of established herds with a dominant male that stick with a predictable range and pattern of movement. I’ll never cease to be amazed by their speed over open ground but their curiosity can and will get the better of them.
About 9 years ago we had a freak, localized snowstorm that dumped 4 to 5 feet in our area. It was too deep to move without expending a lot of effort and browse was covered for a long, long time. It was deep enough the National Guard were called in to help chopper hay to livestock, etc. There was a railroad cut just north of our place where the tracks went through some shale hills and that cut provided some respite from the deep snow, so probably over a hundred antelope gathered there. It was false shelter though because when the next train(s) came through there was no place for the antelope to escape to. We don’t know how many were killed, it was just a jumble of bodies and limbs later.
So after the cactus, heat, rattlesnakes, coyotes, mountain lions, trains, hunters, drought and the rest, I’ve nothing but admiration for Pronghorn when I see them making their way across our place and others.
Another interesting tidbit is that they’re thought to have evolved their incredible running speed in response to a now-extinct cheetah-like predator that used to live in North America. I wonder if the increasingly overlapping jaguar and pronghorn ranges have lead to any exciting nature show moments.
If you ever go camping in the Flaming Gorge Recreation Area, try to get a spot in the aptly-named Antelope Flat campground. The times I’ve been there, pronghorns were grazing in the camping area and they seemed quite acclimated to being around humans. Most of the time they take off running if you get too close–the ones in the campground will walk right past you if you’re quiet and keep still.
Try US-285 sometime south of I-40. Last time I drove that way I had to stop on the highway because there were antelope just hanging out on road. This was somewhere between Vaughn and Roswell.