State foraging calendar

Nevada Foraging Calendar

Nevada's foraging is shaped by its basin-and-range topography, where the piñon-juniper woodland on the mountain ranges rises above a sea of sagebrush valleys, creating a patchwork of productive foraging habitat in a landscape that looks barren from a distance. The piñon pine nuts produced by the Great Basin ranges are Nevada's most significant wild food, with a productive crop every two to four years and the tradition of harvesting them still practiced by the Western Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and other Great Basin tribes. The Spring Mountains near Las Vegas and the other isolated ranges have their own distinct plant communities distinct from the valley floor, with serviceberries, elderberries, and mountain mahogany berries available in the highland forest. Southern Nevada's Mojave Desert fringe adds barrel cactus fruit and other desert foraging species.

4 bioregions across Nevada