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 ...

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 ...

And to drill our well deeper is a $20,000 bill," Angle continued. Groundwater from the Amargosa River Basin has decreased in recent years, but it’s the future that these residents are worried about.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Congress designated portions of the Amargosa ... the Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at 282 feet below sea level. The wild and scenic portion of the river runs for ...

“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.