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The longest land migration in the lower 48 happens in Wyoming. Each spring, 200-300 pronghorn antelope trek 170 miles from southwestern Wyoming to Grand Teton National Park. Part of the path is through booming southwestern Wyoming. It's filling in with homes, and oil and gas wells. Some fear it might be pinched off, ending the migration forever.
This has prompted calls for Congress to create the first National Migration Corridor, a kind of 90 mile by 1 mile national park. Meanwhile, federal land managers are protecting the corridor piece by piece.
In this story, I follow part of the pronghorn's route on foot, alongside a woman who is living with the antelope for the next year. Listen for campfire-side interviews, hikes through sagebrush, and a scene at a bottleneck where pronghorn crawl on their knees under a fence, as dogs bark and four-wheelers rumble.
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Piece Description
The longest land migration in the lower 48 happens in Wyoming. Each spring, 200-300 pronghorn antelope trek 170 miles from southwestern Wyoming to Grand Teton National Park. Part of the path is through booming southwestern Wyoming. It's filling in with homes, and oil and gas wells. Some fear it might be pinched off, ending the migration forever. This has prompted calls for Congress to create the first National Migration Corridor, a kind of 90 mile by 1 mile national park. Meanwhile, federal land managers are protecting the corridor piece by piece. In this story, I follow part of the pronghorn's route on foot, alongside a woman who is living with the antelope for the next year. Listen for campfire-side interviews, hikes through sagebrush, and a scene at a bottleneck where pronghorn crawl on their knees under a fence, as dogs bark and four-wheelers rumble.
Broadcast History
June 13, 2008
June 16, 2008
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The longest land migration in the lower 48 happens in Wyoming. Every spring, 200-300 pronghorn antelope dodge cars, march up mountains and ford rivers on their 170-mile trek from the Red Desert to Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming Public Radio's Addie Goss followed part of that trip...and she tells us how some people are trying to protect this ancient corridor from development.





