File:Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Amargosa Valley, Nevada (5629321934).jpg

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English: Park entrance sign for the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, a National Wildlife Refuge located in the Amargosa Desert subregion of the Mojave Desert, directly east of Death Valley National Park in southern Nye County, southwestern Nevada.
The 23,000-acre (9,300 ha) refuge is a unit of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex of springs/wetlands nature preserves having discharge points of a vast underground 'fossil water' aquifer more than 100 mi (160 km) long, that are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Ash Meadows provides a unique example of desert oases extremely uncommon in the present day southwestern U.S. The refuge is a major discharge point for the aquifer's water-bearing strata surfacing at more than 30 seeps and springs. The refuge protects habitat for at least 26 endemic plants and animals, a concentration of locally exclusive biota, the greatest localized concentration in the U.S. and 2nd in North America.
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Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Amargosa Valley, Nevada

Author Ken Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Camera location36° 25′ 31.66″ N, 116° 23′ 02.86″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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