Journey with Confidence RV GPS App RV Trip Planner RV LIFE Campground Reviews RV Maintenance Take a Speed Test Free 7 Day Trial ×
RV Trip Planning Discussions

Go Back   iRV2 Forums > CAMPING, TRAVEL and TRIP PLANNING > Camping Locations, Plans & Trip Reports
Click Here to Login
Join iRV2 Today

Mission Statement: Supporting thoughtful exchange of knowledge, values and experience among RV enthusiasts.
Reply
  This discussion is proudly sponsored by:
Please support our sponsors and let them know you heard about their products on iRV2
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
 
Old 07-25-2014, 10:27 AM   #15
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Janesville, wi
Posts: 642
Pronghorns are commonly called "Prairie Goats", "Speed Goats", or simply "goats" for this reason (as well as their resemblance to domesticated goats.)
The term "pronghorn antelope", is a misnomer. They are related to goats, not antelope.
Tom3205 is offline   Reply With Quote
Join the #1 RV Forum Today - It's Totally Free!

iRV2.com RV Community - Are you about to start a new improvement on your RV or need some help with some maintenance? Do you need advice on what products to buy? Or maybe you can give others some advice? No matter where you fit in you'll find that iRV2 is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with other RV owners, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create an RV blog, send private messages and so much, much more!

Old 07-25-2014, 11:26 AM   #16
Senior Member
 
BFlinn181's Avatar
 
Gulf Streamers Club
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 19,925
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom3205 View Post
Pronghorns are commonly called "Prairie Goats", "Speed Goats", or simply "goats" for this reason (as well as their resemblance to domesticated goats.)
The term "pronghorn antelope", is a misnomer. They are related to goats, not antelope.
Having spent 25+ years in and about NW Wyoming, I've never heard Pronghorns called goats. Perhaps it's a regional thing. William Clark, in his journal remarked in 1804: "In my walk I Killed a Buck Goat of this Countrey, about the hight of the Grown Deer, its body Shorter... the Colour is a light gray with black behind its ears down its neck... Verry actively made, has only a pair of hoofs to each foot, his brains on the back of his head, his Norstrals large, his eyes like a Sheep he is more like the Antilope or Gazella of Africa than any other Species of Goat." In 1815 they were identified as: Subfamily: Antilocaprinae Genus: Antilocapra Species: Antilocapra americana. Their subfamily and genus name comes from the science nomenclature: Antilo = antelope; capro = male goat. They have been determined to be neither goat or antelope related, but a unique species only found in North America. Genetically, they have more in common with giraffes than any other group.

Bison are mistakingly called buffalo, even overheard a father telling his son that deer grew up to be elk then mature to moose. (!?) It's not uncommon to have people call big horn sheep 'mountain goats.' Twice I've encountered people ranting at the waste of tax money to replant the trees after the '88 Yellowstone fires. (Actually, Lodgepole pines often have serotinous cones, that don't open until after fire are responsible for the reseeding.)

As a science teacher and guide in and about the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, I've encountered much misinformation about regional botany, zoology, and geology.
__________________

Bob & Donna
'98 Gulf Stream Sun Voyager DP being pushed by a '00 Beetle TDI
BFlinn181 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2014, 01:29 PM   #17
Member
 
WanderinTXun's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Braunfels, TX
Posts: 58
Goat, deer, antelope - whatever they are - as long as they will stay still long enough to take a photograph, I'm happy! Thanks for all the info.
__________________
Melissa, Chief Executive Navigator
33Ft. Crossroads Sunset Reserve TT
WanderinTXun is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2014, 01:32 PM   #18
Member
 
WanderinTXun's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Braunfels, TX
Posts: 58
And which Mirror Lake is that??:what: There are many...
__________________
Melissa, Chief Executive Navigator
33Ft. Crossroads Sunset Reserve TT
WanderinTXun is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-25-2014, 10:44 PM   #19
Senior Member
 
gazingm42's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 356
Quote:
Originally Posted by WanderinTXun View Post
And which Mirror Lake is that??:what: There are many...
It on the west side in the high Uintas Foreset just East of Kamas, UT
on highway 150.
__________________
TT: Dutchmen 2014 261BHS
TV: Ram 3500 6.4 HEMI, 3.73 6ft bed 2014.
gazingm42 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2014, 12:03 AM   #20
Senior Member
 
Dan Wong's Avatar
 
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: phoenix, Arizona
Posts: 125
Send a message via AIM to Dan Wong Send a message via Yahoo to Dan Wong
Smile Bison vs Buffalo


https://www.google.com/search?q=buff...2F%3B300%3B160
Dan Wong is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2014, 07:24 AM   #21
Member
 
WanderinTXun's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: New Braunfels, TX
Posts: 58
Quote:
Originally Posted by gazingm42 View Post
It on the west side in the high Uintas Foreset just East of Kamas, UT
on highway 150.
Thanks!!
__________________
Melissa, Chief Executive Navigator
33Ft. Crossroads Sunset Reserve TT
WanderinTXun is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-26-2014, 08:29 AM   #22
Senior Member
 
hdossett's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: N. Central AZ
Posts: 548
Quote:
Originally Posted by WanderinTXun View Post
.... Our two main stops will be at Grand Teton NP and the Grand Canyon, but since we will have 5 weeks at our disposal ... I am currently looking at Flaming Gorge Res...
Melissa
I spent the summer of '01 at the North Rim, GCNP, as a fee ranger with at least one good long hike a week for training (lost 50 lbs) ... and went back for the summer of '05 so I could see the rest of it!

Spent six weeks in the Tetons/Yellow Stone area... and went back two years later for four more weeks to see more of it! Nothing like being there and seeing moose frolicking in the first snow of the season. (OK, moose don't frolic, but you get the idea.)

Flaming Gorge was a drive by for us. Actually left with a day left on the campsite in the south end state park. Time of year? Maybe!

H

PS: getting old and memory goes! Enjoyed Flaming Gorge, it was Riverton to Thermoplis that was the drive by for us!
__________________
'01 National RV Tropi-Cal, Ford V10, '01 Suzuki GV 4X4 Blue Ox Tow Bar,300 Watts Solar, 2500 Watt '458' Inverter, NO TVs, Most light fixtures upgraded to LEDs

hdossett is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Utah for RVers cucotx Camping Locations, Plans & Trip Reports 6 05-11-2014 08:26 PM
Utah highways SNAIL1 Navigation, Routes & Roads 4 05-03-2014 11:17 PM
Auto Leveler Reservoir Location? Blueme Class A Motorhome Discussions 5 04-27-2014 06:29 PM
The Man Behind the Flaming RV - Campground Owner Now in Possession of Trophy DriVer RV Industry Press 1 04-26-2014 12:48 PM

» Featured Campgrounds

Reviews provided by


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 05:56 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.