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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,” said Stevens, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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Guadalupe, a Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist, wrote the numbers on a pad.
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. |
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