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Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area
The
Beaver Dam Wash
National Conservation Area
is a
United States National Conservation Area
located in
southwest
Utah
west
of St. George along the borders with
Arizona
and
Nevada
. It is managed by the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management
as part of the
National Landscape Conservation System
, and was
authorized
in the
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
.
The Beaver
Dam
Wash
National
Conservation Area
is drained by
Beaver Dam
Wash in the
watershed
of the
Virgin River
, a tributary of the
Colorado River
. The NCA provides
habitat
for the
desert tortoise
,
bighorn sheep
,
Joshua trees
, and other
threatened
and sensitive
species
.
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