Across Nevada’s big-sky basins, a small, night-silvered predator is slipping back into view. After years when heat, drought, and development seemed to smother the desert’s quiet life, biologists are finding renewed signs of the desert kit fox, the region’s native “desert fox.” The turnaround isn’t a miracle; it’s the result of wetter winters, smarter land ...
After years of drought and quiet nights in the basins, the desert feels lively again. Conservation crews, tribal biologists, and ranchers are reporting more kit fox tracks on dusty two-tracks and more quick, amber flashes in the beam of survey headlamps. It’s not a fairy-tale rebound, but it’s real enough to stir cautious hope ...
At the edges of Las Vegas subdivisions and along Reno’s rail spurs, a small, sand-colored survivor is rewriting the rules of desert life. As heat waves push the limits of endurance, desert foxes are slipping into human-dominated spaces and turning city noise into a cover for living. What looks like trespass is, in truth, ...
