Coachella Valley NWR, Thousand Palms, California: Coachella Valley National Wildlife Refuge was established specifically to protect the endangered Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard. As you can see, this fascinating little creature blends in...
Coachella Valley desert provides habitat for the threatened Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard.
Resource Links:
http://www.fws.gov/saltonsea/Coachella/CV_endspecies.html
The Taylor's checkerspot was once found throughout grasslands in the Willamette Valley, Puget Sound, and south Vancouver Island. The historic range and abundance of the Taylor's checkerspot is not precisely known because exhaustive searches did not...
Scenic view of the Sheenjek River Valley which is part of the Brooks Range in Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR); dall sheep are in the foreground.
The Sacramento splittail is a hardy minnow native to the upper San Francisco Estuary and the Central Valley in California. It once swam in lakes and rivers throughout the Central Valley and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, but massive...
