LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) — The Department of Interior has announced a two-year pause on new mining claims near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to the pause, officials say they ...

Over the next year, the survival of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge — a critical wetland habitat in the Amargosa Desert 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas — will come down to them.

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is 24,000 acres of impressive springs, seeps and wetlands, home to 26 endemic species of fish, plants and invertebrates that live nowhere else on Earth.

LAS VEGAS, Nev.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management today challenging the agency’s approval of exploratory mineral drilling near the Ash Meadows National ...

NYE COUNTY, Nev. (KTNV) — Located in southern Nye County is a wildlife refuge called Ash Meadows that's home to some of the rarest species in the world. Among them are the Devils Hole pupfish ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev.— The Bureau of Land Management has officially withdrawn its authorization of a proposed lithium mining exploration project at the edge of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in ...

The federal agency initially approved a lithium exploration project by Canada-based Rover Metals to drill up to 30 exploratory boreholes just north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ...

In the stretches of the river that reach the surface — like the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge — the river supports endemic species that depend entirely on springs fed by groundwater ...

Patch of Heaven owner Annette Fuentes said federal officials at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge have threatened arrest but won’t stop them. “They didn’t want a Bundy situation ...

Two people walk down a boardwalk across the Mojave Desert at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada on April 22, 2025. (Sam Ribakoff/Courthouse News) NYE COUNTY, Nev. (CN) — Outside the ...

An endangered Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish swims in King's Pool, along the Point of Rocks Boardwalk, in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. (USFWS) LAS VEGAS (CN) — The Bureau of Land ...