New Organization: North American Pronghorn Foundation

[Bull_n_heat]

If folks hadn't already heard, there's a pronghorn "sepcies group" starting up. The North American Pronghorn Foundation recently was established and could use your support. With many things goin on with the species of late (migration corridor designations, population losses from the 2022-23 winter, etc.), it's a great time to get involved. There's some info below to check out.

Their mission:
The mission of the North American Pronghorn Foundation enhances pronghorn populations and habitats through advocacy, stewardship, stakeholder partnerships, and our hunting heritage.

More information is on their website:

North American Pronghorn Foundation

www.pronghorns.org

 

[voltage]

The good Lord has blessed me with entirely too many awesome “random” antelope tags. To pay some back from all I have taken, I signed up as a founding life member, and am hopeful that the organization can grow.

I encourage others to join!

 

[P dog]

If Brock is involved and especially as chairman...stay away!

 

[OlderGobbler]

If Brock is involved and especially as chairman...stay away!

Care to elaborate on this?

 

[Bull_n_heat]

The good Lord has blessed me with entirely too many awesome “random” antelope tags. To pay some back from all I have taken, I signed up as a founding life member, and am hopeful that the organization can grow.

I encourage others to join!

Heck ya Brother!!

 

[S-3 ranch]

Is it Wyoming only?
Texas and new Mexico needed to get their heads out their a$$’s on problems in the pronghorn population

 

[P dog]

Care to elaborate on this?

Just look him up.

 

[wingmaster]

If Brock is involved and especially as chairman...stay away!

At least do everyone reading this thread a favor and explain why you're telling us to stay away from the only national conservation organization dedicated to pronghorn. I haven't heard anything but positive things about them so far.

 

[P dog]

I am just giving a warning...do your research on him and make your own decisions.

 

[StuckInTheEast]

If Brock is involved and especially as chairman...stay away!

Brock Wahl doesn't turn up much bad in basic search results...Im assuming that's the Brock you speak based on what I see for this new antelope foundation.
Perhaps some specifics from you would help guide folks in finding exactly what your speaking of and what's so bad about this guy.
Im not doubting or calling you out...just not seeing anything come up or have any first hand knowledge of anything he's been associated with.
Personally Im extremely leary of ANY 'non-profit' organization as most are making at least few folks ALOT of profit in the process...There are a few exceptions, but alot of abuse of 'non-profit' operations...everything is about money anymore.

 

[P dog]

He was on the CWD band wagon in ND...getting paid to spew bullshit.

 

[StuckInTheEast]

Yeah...I see chatter about cwd....What part of what he's advocated for do you consider BS? Im actively poking around, not seeing much BS yet. Steer me towards what your point of contention is if you don't mind.

 

[StuckInTheEast]

About all Im seeing is arguments over baiting and how it is/isnt tied to cwd...and whether or not cwd is a 'myth' or not...obviously its not a myth. So is your rub about the baiting ban in ND or what exactly?
Im just reading what I can find and not seeing any major issues yet to be scared of this guy running a pronghorn foundation

 

[P dog]

I guess it depends on where one stands with baiting and CWD. I don't aline myself with his beliefs on either issue. Some of you may. When he is paid to spew non factual information about both, I raise the bullshit flag.

 

[StuckInTheEast]

Sounds like a different argument for different thread.
I don't see anything shady about him, not that I can find readily available anyways...
As stated before, Im extremely leary of any non profit. I just don't see any reason yet to take a hard negative stance on this one based on anything I can find on this Brock guy.

 

[yfarm]

Was speaking a couple of days ago with a friend who is on various foundation boards about the low percentage of raised funds that actually are allocated to their mission. He is on a local junior achievement board, local director is paid 125k/ yr, all funds raised locally go to national which he said has admin expenses of 80% with no documentation of end results. His and my impressions is that this is the norm for many of these foundations and NGOs.
I would like to see transparency in these organizations about this exact issue with a pledge at the front end to allocate a majority of their funds raised to their mission and prove it with an annual audit. If they won’t commit to this turn off the money.

 

[Bull_n_heat]

Was speaking a couple of days ago with a friend who is on various foundation boards about the low percentage of raised funds that actually are allocated to their mission. He is on a local junior achievement board, local director is paid 125k/ yr, all funds raised locally go to national which he said has admin expenses of 80% with no documentation of end results. His and my impressions is that this is the norm for many of these foundations and NGOs.
I would like to see transparency in these organizations about this exact issue with a pledge at the front end to allocate a majority of their funds raised to their mission and prove it with an annual audit. If they won’t commit to this turn off the money.

I certainly understand the concern here, and myself am a bit dismayed with the amount of profit to be had in non-profits. However, I believe that getting in on the ground floor allows members to assert exactly what they want: an orgainization that stays lean with personnel and gets good things done for Pronghorn. From what I have seen, if you let leadership know you want money to be spent on X and not Y, the time to do that is when the group is getting it's legs under it.

 

[C Bow]

Seems like a lot of these board members make a good living doing these non profits

 

[finner]

The organization is all volunteer at this point. Brock is a solid dude. Good for him and the rest for standing this up, I'm hopeful they can do some good work on migratory corridors.

It's incredibly simple to find out how much of your donation dollar is spent on programmatic work for any given nonprofit. Easier even than throwing shit against a wall to see what sticks.

 

[voltage]

It's incredibly simple to find out how much of your donation dollar is spent on programmatic work for any given nonprofit. Easier even than throwing shit against a wall to see what sticks.

It’s more fun for people to insinuate embezzlement than it is to look up a 990 and support conservation with $35