Habitats

Habitat is a combination of environmental factors that provides food, water, cover and space that a living thing needs to survive and reproduce. Habitat types include: coastal and estuarine, rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, wetlands, riparian areas, deserts, grasslands/prairie, forests, coral reefs, marine, perennial snow and ice, and urban. There are eight habit types found in Nevada. The are: rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, wetlands, riparian areas, deserts, grasslands/prairie, forests and urban. Many of these habitats make up larger ecoregions. For information on Nevada's ecoregions follow this link.

It is the mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. Destruction, degradation, and fragmentation of habitat is the driving force behind today's decline in species and biodiversity. Impacts to habitat can be caused directly by such activities as the clearing of forests to grow crops or build homes, or indirectly, for example, by the introduction of invasive species or increased pollution run-off from yards and fields.

Please use this link to download the Environmental Protection Agency's Level III and IV Ecoregion PDF map.