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Pockets of moderate drought also remain in the West Desert and a sizeable portion of northeast Utah, which are the southwest end of larger drought conditions impacting Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

With more than 200 days of no measurable rain in Las Vegas and counting, Southern Nevada’s beloved bighorn sheep are reaching ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...