Nevada

From the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the outskirts of Las Vegas, the lands and waters of Nevada support vital habitat for wildlife and provide a playground for outdoor enthusiasts. To date The Conservation Fund has protected more than 1.2 million acres here.

Strategic Conservation Planning With Nevada Land Conservancy

Nevada has been America's fastest growing state for the past two decades. The Nevada Land Conservancy invited the Fund to help think strategically about western Nevada, the Sierra Front range and areas along border states of California and Oregon—a vast expanse covering 30 million acres.
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Clark County Wetlands Park

The Clark County Wetlands Park is an uncommon facet of Las Vegas, providing a glimpse of the region’s geographic and wildlife history. In 2002 the Fund and the Bureau of Land Management helped Clark County purchase 80 acres of environmentally sensitive lands to expand the park, which offers hiking trails, flowing streams and quiet ponds.

Clark County Grazing Allotments

Since 1996 the Fund has worked with local ranchers, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Clark County to purchase willing sellers’ grazing allotments on public lands that contain habitat for the desert tortoise and banded gila monster. In 2001 the Fund negotiated the purchase of grazing rights on 76,384 acres of the Sand Hollow and Beacon allotments, bringing protected lands to more than 730,000 acres. The Fund’s new initiative on grazing rights is an effort to strengthen ranching communities by helping landowners retire marginal allotments and thereby providing them with new money to reinvest in more productive operations.

Washoe Valley

In one of the grandest conservation accomplishments under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, the Fund helped the Bureau of Land Management acquire 533 acres of environmentally sensitive land and 2,938 acre-feet of associated water rights in Washoe Valley just east of Lake Tahoe. With additional support from the Bureau of Land Management, Falcon Capital, the USDA Forest Service and Washoe County, to date the Fund has conserved more than 2,000 acres of open space and 3,200 acre-feet of surface and ground water within Washoe Valley at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.