Wildlife

Youth members of 4-H on July 30 will show then auction off wild horses they’ve been training as part of a halter-started wild horse and burro program.

A new off-road naturalist trail from Washoe Lake State Park to Virginia City was released this month offering in-person and virtual options to explore the area’s plants and wildlife.

Fifteen saddle-started horses and one burro were successfully adopted at a recent adoption event at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.

The Springs Wings Festival returned this year after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 with bird watchers celebrating Nevada’s wetlands and the migratory birds that enjoy them.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) got reports last week of numerous dead fish at Wildhorse Reservoir north of Elko.

Bears near the Lake Tahoe basin are beginning to emerge from their winter dens and local wildlife officials say now is a crucial time for both the bears and residents to prevent ongoing bad bear behavior and damages.

Volunteers are being sought for Saturday, March 19 to help plant 10,000 sagebrush seedlings in the Cedar Fire burn area near Jiggs.

After two weeks of operations the Bureau of Land Management this week said it had finished its wild horse roundup effort in the Desatoya Herd Management area 77 miles east of Fallon.

Officials from Tonopah and Ely Bureau of Land Management offices said they’ll begin a massive wild horse gather starting Monday, Jan. 10 covering four herd areas and more than 1.2 million acres.

The Bureau of Land Management this week said it would soon begin a wild horse and burro gather in the Nevada Wild Horse Range Herd Management Area (HMA), about 30 miles southeast of Tonopah.