Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
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The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The refuge was created on June 18, 1984. This 23,000 acre refuge is part of the larger Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which also includes the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, and the Amargosa Pupfish Station.
The refuge was established to provide habitat for at least 24 indigenous plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. Four fish and one plant are currently listed as endangered.
This concentration of indigenous life distinguishes Ash Meadows as having a greater concentration of endemic life than any other local area in the United States and the second greatest in all of North America.
[edit] History
The refuge was created on June 18, 1984 to protect an extremely rare desert oasis in the southwestern United States.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Fauna, Flora and Minerals
Borax • Chuckwalla • Death Valley monkeyflower • Death Valley pupfish • Devil's Hole pupfish • Salt Creek Pupfish
History
Death Valley Railroad • Greenwater • Lake Manly • Skidoo
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad • Twenty mule team
Places
Amargosa Range / River / Valley • Ash Meadows NWR • Badwater • Ballarat • Beatty • Chloride City • Death Valley Junction • Eureka Dunes • Furnace Creek • Panamint City / Range / Springs / Valley • Racetrack • Rhyolite • Scotty's Castle • Stovepipe Wells • Telescope Peak • Trona • Ubehebe Crater • Zabriske Point
Transportation
CA SR127 • CA SR178 • CA SR190 • NV SR373 •NV SR374 • Trona Railway • US 95
