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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.
Location Date Established Area Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge [5] Baldwin County: 1980 6,816 acres (27.58 km 2) Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge: Bibb County: September 25, 2002 2,997 acres (12.13 km 2) [6] Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge: Choctaw County: 1964 4,218 acres (17.07 km 2) Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge: Barbour County ...
The latest wildlife mystery in Nevada has been solved. DNA testing confirmed the results with 99.9% certainty, the Nevada Department of Wildlife announced this week. The sighting in northeast ...
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.
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.
The litter of five highly endangered wolves was born in Eastern North Carolina in April. Their father was killed by a car on US 64 in June. ‘Shocking’ loss for endangered red wolves: 5 pups ...
A newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming in California’s Sierra Nevada, at least 200 miles away from the nearest known pack, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
Map showing wolf packs in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as of 2002. Grey wolf packs were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and Idaho starting in 1995. These wolves were considered as “experimental, nonessential” populations per article 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Such classification gave government officials ...