Nevada has 5 venomous snakes. Where they're found and what to do if you get bit
Of all the wildlife in Nevada, only one venomous snake is commonly found in Northern Nevada. Even so, their camouflage and ...
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Slow and steady: When will Mojave Max, Nevada’s other famous tortoises come out?
Desert tortoises typically emerge between ... Carson spends his winters in a heated shed up in cold Northern Nevada. Kristen Dillard, executive coordinator for the Governor’s Mansion, says ...
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Rare Desert Wetland Wildflower Advances Toward Endangered Species Protections
The small herbaceous plant with delicate pale pink flowers grows in alkali wetlands in two desert basins ... of extinction.” The northern population of the Tecopa bird’s beak is found in Fish Lake ...
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Rare Nevada Butterfly Proposed for Endangered Species Protection
This extremely rare subspecies of butterfly lives in alkali wetlands in far northern Nevada. The skipper faces threats from ... “The bleached sandhill skipper is a miracle in the desert, and this is a ...
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USPS ditches plan to process Nevada mail in California
The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it’s scrapping plans to move its Northern Nevada outgoing mail processing operations from Reno to Sacramento, California, easing concerns that such ...