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Courtesy photo Tech. Sgt. Timothy Boyer

Morgart Tank, within the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge semi-captive breed- 7KHQG)LJKWHU6TXDGURQODXQFKHGLWV¿UVWVRUWLHLQDQ)/LJKWQLQJ,,LQ-XO\DW
ing facility, provides water to the Sonoran pronghorn antelope on the Barry M. Luke Air Force Base. Lt. Col. Matthew Vedder, 62nd FS director of operations and in-
Goldwater Range. The pronghorn was listed as a federally endangered species in VWUXFWRUSLORWÀHZWKHKRXUDQGDKDOIPLVVLRQLQWKHPRVWUHFHQW)DUULYDO7KHMHW
1967. The Sonoran pronghorn is a desert-adapted subspecies of American prong- ODQGHGDW/XNHDOLWWOHPRUHWKDQDZHHNSULRUWRLWV¿UVWVRUWLHEHLQJÀRZQ
horn, the fastest land mammal in North America. It is smaller and paler in color than
other American pronghorn subspecies.

Staff Sgt. Scotty Avis,
56th Civil Engineer
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