Careers
This professional studies animals and their habitats and often works outdoors.
What is a wildlife biologist?
This animal can run up to 30 miles per hour and is known for its ability to climb trees to escape danger.
What is a black bear?
What is the name of a common pine tree located in the park?
What is Jeffery Pine?
This practice involves protecting natural resources like water, land, and wildlife to ensure they remain healthy for future generations.
What is conservation?
These three things are needed to start and maintain a fire.
What are fuel, heat, and oxygen?
This career involves managing natural parks and protecting wildlife.
What is a park ranger?
This nocturnal animal uses echolocation to navigate in the dark.
What is a bat?
What is the name of the mountain that the park is located on?
What is Mount Rose?
With its smooth, reddish bark and twisting branches, this shrub is a favorite for wildlife habitat in dry, rocky areas and in the park.
What is manzanita?
This iconic forest fire prevention mascot is known for the slogan "Only YOU Can Prevent Wildfires." Who is he?
Who is Smokey Bear?
This person studies plants, animals, and ecosystems to better understand the natural world.
What is a naturalist?
This snake is often found in deserts and dry areas of North America and is famous for its warning.
What is a rattlesnake?
This building at a national or regional park provides information, maps, and educational exhibits.
What is a visitor center?
A region where all the rain that falls drains into the same river or stream is called what?
What is a watershed?
What is the term for a planned fire used to manage forests and grasslands, improve habitat, and reduce fire risk?
What is prescribed burning?
A person who works to bring about social, political, or environmental change by raising awareness and taking action is called what?
Who is an activist?
What is the state mammal of Nevada that plays a key role as an apex predator in various ecosystems?
What is a mountain lion? puma, cougar
What is the fourth ethic and explain why we should follow it?
What is Leave what you find?
Substances like chemicals, waste, and toxins that contaminate water sources are known as what?
What are water pollutants?
This fire prevention technique involves creating a cleared area of bare ground to stop a fire from spreading.
What is a firebreak?
This person cares for injured or orphaned animals and helps them recover so they can be released back into the wild.
What is a wildlife rehabilitator?
What animal makes this sound?
See Vedio
Without going to look...what is the bird in the exhibit located at the front of the visitor center as soon as you walk in? (Hint two words)
What is Tundra Swan?
Located in the Sierra Nevada, This famous lake is the second deepest in the United States.
What is lake Tahoe?
Climate change is when the Earth's weather and temperatures change over a long period of time. This can make some places hotter, cooler, wetter, or drier than they used to be. It happens because people release gases like Methane and Carbon Dioxide into the air, which trap heat and cause the planet to warm up. These gases come from things people do, like driving cars, burning fossil fuels, and raising animals. These gases go into the air and trap heat from the sun, which makes the Earth warmer. This is why scientists study these gases — to understand how they affect the climate and find ways to keep our planet healthy.
What are some reasons why climate change is contributing to an increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires?
Climate change leads to higher temperatures and prolonged droughts, which dry out vegetation and create ideal conditions for wildfires to start and spread.