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Easement on private land [367] Lake Patricia National Wildlife Refuge: Morton County: 1939 [368] 800 acres (3.2 km 2) Easement on private land [369] Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge^^^^^ Williams County: 1939 [370] 3,823 acres (15.47 km 2) [371] Lambs Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Nelson County: 1939 [372] Easement on private land [373]
Nevada State Route 140 traverses the refuge from east to west and is the only paved road within the refuge. The nearest community of any size is Denio, Nevada, 14 miles from the refuge's eastern boundary. The nearest divided highway is Interstate 80 in Winnemucca, Nevada, approximately 100 miles to the south.
The sighting in northeast Nevada near Merritt Mountain about 90 miles (144 kilometers) north of Elko initially spurred a great deal of excitement as it would have marked only the second time in a ...
Additional wolves have been tracked entering the state, as the Cascade Range extends south from Oregon into northern California. Wolves are dispersing into the Sierra Nevada and other portions of their historic habitat. [57] Wolves from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have dispersed into Colorado several times in the 21st century. In 2021 ...
A newly announced pack in the Sequoia National Forest is more than 200 miles south of the nearest known pack.
In 2017, a single gray wolf was documented in Nevad a near the California line west of the Black Rock Desert about 120 miles (193 km) north of Reno. It later was determined to be a lone visitor related to the Shasta pack in northern California. Before then, the last confirmed Nevada sighting of a wolf was in 1922, near Elko County’s Gold Creek.
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Nevada has 48 species of fish living in its 600 rivers and more than 200 lakes. [13] Large lakes with several species of fish include for instance Pyramid Lake, Lake Tahoe, Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, Franklin Lake and Walker Lake. At least 12 of Nevada's fishes are endemic to Nevada waters – they occur here and exist nowhere else in the world.