Tule Springs lie in the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley, at the edge of the present city. As a perennial water source in this arid land, the springs have always been of extraordinary importance to the area’s people and wildlife. To this day several ponds support substantial waterfowl populations, as well as other wildlife and even fish stocks. Unsurprisingly, the springs were homesteaded around the end of the 19th century. The ranch acted as a stage stop briefly for the early 20th-century mining booms centered around Rhyolite, about…
