But for all its richness, life in the Amargosa River Basin is intensely fragile, and appears to be growing increasingly so. With warming temperatures and the western United States long mired in ...

The river gets its water from the Colorado River drainage basin, which spreads some 246,000 square miles. A drainage basin is an area where all precipitation flows to the same river, or set of ...

Compacts such as what has been developed for Northern Nevada’s Truckee River are examples of what should be pursued for the Amargosa Basin and other watersheds. Such compacts will take ...

Activists say the dairy is the largest user of water of the Amargosa River, a small system that ... Allen said. “This basin has been over-appropriated and over-pumped for many, many years ...

AMARGOSA VALLEY ... that rely on the Amargosa River. “And I said: ‘Excuse me. I understand that. However, all of the residents that are affected by Basin 230 have the right to survive ...

The Amargosa toad is found only in a short segment of the Amargosa River in the Mojave Desert near Beatty ... between groundwater and surface water in the Oasis Valley basin. The groundwater flow in ...

the Center for Biological Diversity asserts recent mining proposals have escalated the dangers to the species found along a 14-mile stretch of the Amargosa River. “We are requesting that this ...

“The Amargosa River is in the crosshairs of the international gold-mining industry, and the Oasis Valley speckled dace could be its first casualty,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director at the ...

The search for lithium has found its way to a treasured corner of the Nevada desert, resulting in a lawsuit by conservation groups who say further mining exploration could endanger a trove of ...

The fish can be found only in the area of the Amargosa River Basin in southern Nye County, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Yet, a post from the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ...

“This is a historic day for Ash Meadows and the entire Amargosa River watershed,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director at the Center for Biological Diversity and a longtime local resident.