About this place
Hart Mountain was established in 1936 as a “range and breeding ground for pronghorn and other species of wildlife.” In addition to serving as a stronghold for pronghorn, the refuge encompasses some of the most important sage-grouse habitat in the nation and is critical habitat for myriad other sagebrush-dependent wildlife species. In the mid-1990s livestock grazing was determined to be incompatible with the refuge’s mission and cattle were removed, creating one of the largest ungrazed landscapes in the entire Great Basin.
