The Caliente Field Station is a detached station from the Ely Field Office of the BLM. With a population of about 1,000, Caliente is in Lincoln County, 150 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 25 miles (as the crow flies) from the western Utah border. While you would expect to see the Great Basin landforms and vegetation most common to Nevada, the area also boasts the northern-most region of the Mojave Desert and Joshua tree, a vast pinyon pine and Utah juniper woodland, as well as ponderosa pines and bristlecones on some of the mountain peaks. In any direction from historic Caliente, you can reach these destinations within about an hour's drive. The area's animal life is as diverse as the land. Bighorn sheep, desert tortoise, mule deer, numerous migratory songbirds, mountain lions, and raptors are only a small number of wildlife species you can encounter, not to mention the legendary wild horses which roam over much of the area.
DID YOU KNOW CALIENTE WAS FOUNDED BY TWO RUNAWAY SLAVES?!
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