Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Nevada One of the nine National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) located in the State of Nevada, the Ash Meadows NWR is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Nye County, Nevada, and was established in 1984, encompasses some 14,000 acres (approximately 22 square miles) and provides critical habitat for 25 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. This distinguishes the Ash Meadows NWR as having the greatest concentration of endemic species of any other local area in the United States. Of the 25 unique species, 12 have been listed as either Threatened or Endangered. Water is the key natural resource which makes the Ash Meadows NWR a unique Ecosystem in the dry Mojave Desert. In this area, water-bearing strata come to the surface in approximately 30 seeps and springs, providing a rich and complex variety of habitat. The earliest efforts to protect this area were undertaken by The Nature Conservancy, which purchased 12,613 acres of land in 1984 and subsequently sold it to the USFWS specifically to establish a wildlife refuge. Also see National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System and National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) Nevada.
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