RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Tecopa bird’s beak, a rare wildflower found in the desert wetlands of western Nevada and eastern California, may qualify for ...

The figure alarms conservationists and state wildlife officials and underscores Nevada’s uniqueness in ... which eventually become someone’s pet desert iguana, chuckwalla or desert horned ...

With more than 200 days of no measurable rain in Las Vegas and counting, Southern Nevada’s beloved bighorn sheep are reaching ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways ... unfenced portion of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers to be the desert tortoise’s “critical habitat.” ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

The fate of the Tecopa bird’s beak and the fate of desert communities are intertwined.” Today’s announcement kicks off a year-long review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using the best available ...

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being ... according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The company is expected to start construction ...