The Humboldt Wildlife Management Area is a wildlife management area in the U.S. state of Nevada, encompassing the salt marshes at the terminus of the Humboldt River. The Humboldt WMA contains habitats ranging from alkali desert scrub to open water, in three shallow intermittent lakes: Upper Humboldt Lake, Lower Humboldt Lake, and Toulon Lake. Due to hig…
The Humboldt Wildlife Management Area is a wildlife management area in the U.S. state of Nevada, encompassing the salt marshes at the terminus of the Humboldt River. The Humboldt WMA contains habitats ranging from alkali desert scrub to open water, in three shallow intermittent lakes: Upper Humboldt Lake, Lower Humboldt Lake, and Toulon Lake. Due to high climatic variation from month to month and from year to year in the Great Basin, the amount of water that reaches the Humboldt Sink can vary enormously, from up to 25,000 acres during years of high flow to the entire area going dry. Water flows into the Humboldt WMA depend in part upon the amount of irrigation water used by farms immediately upstream in the Lovelock Valley.
Location: Pershing, Churchill, Nevada, United States
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