Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge, which is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It is located 140 km northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada in southern Nye County. The 9,300 acres (93 km ²) large reserve is part of the larger Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which is also the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the, the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, and the Amargosa Pupfish Station includes Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

The reserve was created on 18 June 1984 in order to provide at least 26 endemic plant and animal species habitat. Four species of fish and plant species are present in the Endangered Species Act as " endangered " ( endangered ) listed. The concentration of endemic life in Ash Meadows is greater than in any other region in the United States and the second highest in North America.

Ash Meadows provides a valuable example of desert oases, which are now extremely rare in the southwestern United States. The reserve is a main discharge point for a huge underground water system that supports more than 160 km extends to the northeast. Water-bearing layers that come to the surface in more than 30 water reservoirs and sources that offer a rich, complex variety of habitats. In the north and west are the remains of the hot water springs of Carson Slough, which were drained in the 1960s by Torfaufbau. In the west and south of Ash Meadows, there are sand dunes. Next numerous flow channels and wetlands throughout the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge are distributed.

Flora and Fauna

Among the endemic Fischtaxa include the Teufelskärpfling ( Cyprinodon diabolis ), which occurs exclusively in the Devil's Hole, an underground water reservoir, Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes, Cyprinodon nevadensis nevadensis pectoralis and Rhinichthys osculus. The pupfish Empetrichthys merriami and the Ash Meadows vole ( Microtus montanus nevadensis ) are valid since the 1950s or 1930s to be extinct. An endangered Süßwasserschneckenart, which occurs in only six springs in Ash Meadows, Pyrgulopsis is erythropoma. The rare Schwimmwanzenart Ambrysus amargosus has a distribution area of 4 square kilometers in the Point of Rocks Springs. Native plant taxa include Enceliopsis nudicaulis var corrugata, Grindelia Fraxino - pratensis, Nitrophila Mohavensis, Astragalus phoenix and Zeltnera namophila. In 2010, two new species of bees have been discovered in the genus Perdita in Ash Meadows.