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Peregrine falcons act as mercury bellwether, Nevada study shows

The toxic element is turning up in the feathers of peregrine falcons from coast to coast, including those living full time at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, according to a new study by Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Joe Barnes.

Moapa dace population steady in new count of endangered fish

The Moapa dace population was tallied at 1,138 adult fish in the February count at its habitat in the warm springs and streams that form the headwaters of the Muddy River, 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

Next Burning Man temple may send environmental message

The ephemeral structure is being built entirely out of Ponderosa pine trees killed within the past six months by drought and beetle infestation in the Sierra Nevada range in California.

 
UNLV researcher studies desert’s ‘living carpet’

Restoration ecologist Lindsay Chiquoine studies biological soil crusts, a once-overlooked world of highly specialized mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria at a research site near Lake Mead.