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Nevada's game bird resources include chukar and Hungarian partridge, sage, blue and ruffed grouse, California, Gambel, and mountain quail, ring necked pheasants, mourning dove and wild turkey. Waterfowl associated with the state's aquatic areas include northern pintail, mallard, America wigeon, redhead and wood ducks as well as Canada and snow ...
Lahontan cutthroat trout, lake form, from Pyramid Lake, Nevada. 1938 remarks by FDR on the taste of Nevada trout.. The Lahontan cutthroat is native to the drainages of the Truckee River, Humboldt River, Carson River, Walker River, Quinn River, and several smaller rivers in the Great Basin of North America. [6]
It is formed by the Lahontan Dam, built in 1905 by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Newlands Reclamation Act and is located between Fallon, Nevada and Carson City, Nevada. The flows from the Carson River are augmented by the diversions from the Truckee River. The reservoir is maintained by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID).
The Carson Sink was a deep portion of the Pleistocene water body Lake Lahontan, [5] the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin.. The Carson Trail, used during the California Gold Rush across the Lahontan Basin, included a section through the Forty Mile Desert to the first drinkable water on the Carson River. [6]
In 1973, the Nevada Department of Wildlife began stocking the Spooner Lake with trout. [6] Trout species include the native Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi), as well as multiple non-native species and hybrids including rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), brown trout (Salmo trutta), bowcutt trout (rainbow x cutthroat), brook trout (Salvenlinus fontinalis), and tiger ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nevada. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
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Salmon Falls Creek is a tributary of the Snake River, flowing from northern Nevada into Idaho in the United States. Formed in high mountains at the northern edge of the Great Basin, Salmon Falls Creek flows northwards 121 miles (195 km), [3] draining an arid and mountainous basin of 2,103 square miles (5,450 km 2).