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The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in northwestern Clark and southwestern Lincoln counties, with much of its land area lying within the southeastern section of the Nevada Test and Training Range.
In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall. Wildlife managers say explosive growth in ...
With the Rocky Mountains to the west, the Great Plains to the east, and the Chihuahuan Desert to the south, Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge encompasses a diversity of habitats. Located along the Central Flyway, the Refuge provides an important resting, feeding, and wintering area for migrating geese , ducks , and cranes.
North Las Vegas, Nevada; North Las Vegas Airport; Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park; Pah Rah Range; Papoose Lake; Primm, Nevada; Prostitution in Nevada; Pyramid Lake (Nevada) Railroad Valley (Nevada) Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area; Reno Stead Airport; Ruby Dome; Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge; Rye Patch State ...
The Sheep Range is located north of Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States.It is found in both Clark and Lincoln Counties in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.The mountains reach a peak at Hayford Peak, 9,912 feet (3,021 m) above sea level between the Las Vegas Range to the east and the Desert Range to the west.
Gold Butte National Monument, southeastern Nevada. The monument consists of 296,937 acres (120,166 ha). [1] The Gold Butte National Monument fills a gap between Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, creating a continuous swath of conserved land and establishing a wildlife corridor. [2]
The Las Vegas Range is a north–south range, with two main north–south ridgelines. The highpoint of the range, Gass Peak , is in the south massif above the Las Vegas Valley . The southern portion of the Las Vegas Range has the linear ridgelines ending at the massif at the south, defining the northern Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area ...
Seven park ranger districts are located in the many mountain ranges in Nevada, from the Santa Rosa Range in the north to the Spring Mountains near Las Vegas in the south. About 11% of the forest is in eastern California, in the areas around Bridgeport and Markleeville, and other areas west of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain between the two states.