Fish Springs NWR, an oasis in the desert. April 20th 2015.

 Fish Springs NWR was established in 1959 to provide habitat for migratory bird management within the Pacific Flyway. Approximately 10,000 acres of its 17,992 total acres are wetlands. Refuge waters are supplied by spring flows that arise under artesian pressure and hydrothermal convection along fracture zones in the Great Basin Carbonate Rock and Alluvial Aquifer. Refuge measurements indicate the springs discharge approximately 22,000 – 27,000 acre-feet per year, most of which is recharged from areas outside the Fish Springs Flat.