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Nevada's blueprint for wildlife conservation.

Publication: Endangered Species Update
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Nevada's Wildlife Action Plan is a comprehensive blueprint that outlines the key roles of all land and resource management agencies and non-governmental organizations with a primary stake in the conservation goals of the Silver State.

Nevada's diversity of life results from its geography; its many mountain ranges are effectively isolated from one another by arid, treeless basins. Among the 50 states, Nevada is ranked eleventh in biological diversity and fifth in the number of historical species extinctions. Nevada also is challenged in developing effective wildlife conservation programs, in part because its arid climate, geography, and relative scarcity of water have produced many endemic species (those found nowhere else) that are vulnerable to...

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