Pronghorn Wrestling 101
In my opinion, everyone should have the opportunity to play tackle football against a bunch of wild-eyed, stinky pronghorn antelope at least once in their lifetime. My chance came yesterday as a few of us at work drove up to Wayne County to help in the yearly pronghorn relocation event. Basically we were capturing pronghorn near Loa (where they are thick as rabbits) and transplanting 50 to the Panguitch area (where there are substantially less). The whole event is a serious hoot. In a nutshell, the helicopter "herds" small groups of animals into a round trap. When they have 30 or so animals in the trap they let 15 to 20 "muggers" (that's codeword for crazy guys and gals that either missed high school football and want a try at it or those that want to relive the glory days) into a separate section of the trap. After some quick remarks by the guy in charge to get you all pumped up, they ease back the divider and let 5-10 animals escape into our section of th...
