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On January 9, 2008, a joint team from World Wildlife Fund, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, and University of Calgary initiated fieldwork on a collaborative study of pronghorn ecology and conservation planning in the international trans-boundary region of northern Montana and southern Canada. They located groups of pronghorn by plane, and then fired a net from a helicopter to capture them. The team met their goal of fitting 22 females with GPS radio collars.

The project will examine population and habitat ecology of pronghorn assessing impacts of habitat fragmentation and human infrastructure and activities especially energy development on pronghorn ecology, leading to improved land use management and a conservation design for the northern sagebrush steppe of the northern Great Plains eco-region. Scientists will download GPS data from collars when they release from the animals in one year and can also remotely download GPS locations. While the collaring work took place just north of the American Prairie Reserve, some of this population, including collared animals, may use winter range in the APR. The APR is important year-round habitat for pronghorn and will figure prominently in the conservation area design resulting from this work.