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Sun peeking through clouds over green mountains
Resilient Lands The Roberts Mountains in Nevada. © Chip Caroon/TNC

Stories in Nevada

Resilient Lands

How we're preserving, protecting and restoring Nevada's special places for future generations

The Nevada landscape is extraordinary. Nevada’s majestic mountain ranges and vast desert expanses are incredibly beautiful, and the state is home to an extraordinary diversity of plants and animals, many which occur nowhere else in the world. However, invasive weeds and grasses, wildfire, poor grazing management, climate change, declining water supplies and other threats are leading to the degradation of these landscapes that are crucial habitat and vital for outdoor recreation and a healthy economy.  

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Nevada has the privilege of protecting, stewarding and restoring places set aside for nature. On public and private lands, we support efforts to conserve biodiversity and actively adapt new approaches in the face of intensifying threats.

Through TNC’s preserves, we develop and demonstrate innovation in grazing, fire management, invasive species prevention and management, and natural climate solutions like floodplain restoration.  TNC’s preserves also fall along vital migration corridors that are important to wildlife as the climate changes.

These preserves add to the fabric of local communities.  They help to tell Nevada’s stories while preserving nature for generations to come. Resilient lands are quite literally the foundation of Nevada’s future for people and wildlife.  

Nevada's Extraordinary Biodiversity

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    25,000

    Nevada has 314 mountain ranges, 25,000 freshwater springs, and more than 300 hot springs - the most in the continental United States.

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    Top 10

    Nevada is among the top ten states for the number of butterflies and diversity of mammals.

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    11th

    Though Nevada is the driest state, we are the 11th most biodiverse, and home to more than 300 species that are only found here.

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    3/50

    Nevada's unique pockets of habitat and high number of endemic species makes it third out of 50 states for the most species at risk due to climate change.

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