Nevada

With fewer U.S. For­est Ser­vice lands than any other west­ern state, pre­serv­ing habi­tat in Nevada becomes even more important.

• About 5.8 mil­lion of Nevada’s 70 mil­lion acres (about 8 per­cent) are U.S. For­est Ser­vice lands.

• Of those 5.8 mil­lion acres of pub­lic land, about 3.2 mil­lion acres, or about 55 per­cent, are inven­to­ried road­less areas.

• About 2,000 acres, or 0.03 per­cent of all U.S. For­est Ser­vice lands are rec­om­mended for wilder­ness designation.

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 Spot­light on the Santa Rosa Mountains

As one of Nevada’s most pop­u­lar moun­tain ranges, the Santa Rosa Moun­tains offer hunter and anglers an array of recre­ational oppor­tu­nity.  Each spring and sum­mer vis­i­tors are greeted with a flush of flow­ers among the sub alpine pine, mahogany and aspen trees.

 

Up Close

Although there are no nat­ural lakes, these moun­tains sup­port hun­dreds of miles of peren­nial streams, numer­ous springs and a wide myr­iad of mam­mals and avian wildlife species.  A few devel­oped roads pro­vide access through the moun­tain and one devel­oped camp­ground, but the For­est Ser­vice lands are remote and con­tain large seg­ments of habi­tat with­out devel­oped roads.  These areas include the steep west face of the moun­tains to the gen­tler slope drain­ing into the west flank of the Owyhee Desert.

Hunt­ing

Big game species include mule deer, prong­horn, Cal­i­for­nia bighorn sheep, moun­tain lions, and a small pop­u­la­tion of elk which have immi­grated into the area.  All big game species are on a lim­ited entry draw to man­age for qual­ity as opposed to numer­ous tags. Big­ger buck and larger rams are syn­ony­mous with areas away from devel­oped roads or trails. Sage-grouse, chukar par­tridge, val­ley quail and ruffed grouse are the pop­u­lar upland game species for hunt­ing and are found over most of the Santa Rosa’s.

Fish­ing

The peren­nial streams within this range offer the same oppor­tu­ni­ties for fish­ers as hunters.  The streams hold sin­gle species or an aggre­gate of brook trout, browns, rain­bow and cut­throat in all the pri­mary sys­tems.  One can fish from a vehi­cle or strike out for the more remote stretches in hopes of land­ing those fish not sub­jected to more intense pressure.

 

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