LAS VEGAS— Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation today to expand the U.S. Air Force’s Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, but the bill offers ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Tecopa bird’s beak, a rare wildflower found in the desert ... from Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge to Tecopa, California.

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

LAS VEGAS— Congress today moved to deny the Defense Department’s request to seize more than 1.7 million acres of public land in Nevada for bombing ranges, following a five-year grassroots campaign by ...

Long before Southern Nevada built ... listed Mojave desert tortoises as threatened in 1990. The project area includes the last unfenced portion of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers ...

Desert Bighorn Sheep at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. (Photo: National Park Service) Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its ...

After an intense local campaign to protect a treasured wildlife refuge in the Amargosa Desert the federal government ... acres of public land adjacent to Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife ...

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 ...