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By Conor Shine (contact) 
Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Despite its seemingly inhospitable desert climate, Nevada is home to a wide array of biological diversity, including many threatened and endangered species. Statewide there are 26 endangered species and 16 threatened species protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, with another 15 species being considered for the list, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The species range from the tiny Devils Hole pupfish, an inch-long fish found only in a small body of water near Death Valley, to the Steamboat buckwheat, a small herb-like plant found near the base of mountains in the Sierra Nevada range. Animals or ...
Thank you! This is exactly the kind of informative overview we need to get a handle on biodiversity and the challenges we face with so many extinctions. There's a big, big meeting this week in Hyderabad, India and I'll be making the point -- http://ronmader.wordpress.com/2012/10/05... -- that stories like this go a long way in raising our awareness. I'll be focusing my efforts facilitating a workshop that connects biodiversity, tourism and indigenous peoples. Again, there's so much to learn in Nevada and so much do right away.
Well The mistake that was made was allowing people to move here and bring their life style with them.So much here is not native to this state.This "was" a desert. I think if they could someone would have put a golf course on the polar ice cap already. Ask any kid in LA what they're standing on at this moment...they'll say well Da...the ground man.Nevada is no different. Is it too late to stop the erosion of wild life here?...maybe...but at least they can severely slow it down.