Snorklers count endangered Nevada fish outside Las Vegas
Kevin Guadalupe walked along the banks of the stream as Montana Stevens, outfitted in snorkel gear, popped his head out of the water to report how many fish he’d seen. “Two adults, two juveniles,” … Both were among the group of surveyors from several different agencies who recently snorkeled while inching forward in essentially a flat crawl in the warm, shallow streams and springs that comprise the headwaters of the Muddy River, about 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas near Moapa. The count showed that the population of the fish, which only exists in these waters — about six miles worth of streams and springs in the Southern Nevada desert — appears to be stable and similar to the numbers over the past few years.