Sulpher Spring Range
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The Sulphur Spring Range is a mountain range
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 located in east-central Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 in the United States
United States
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. The mountains are found mostly in Eureka County northeast of the Roberts Mountains
Roberts Mountains
The Roberts Mountains are located in central Nevada in the western United States. The mountains are found in Eureka County, east of the Simpson Park Mountains and west and southwest of the Sulpher Spring Range. The range reaches a peak at Roberts Creek Mountain, at 10,133 feet .The Bureau of Land...

 and west of the Diamond Valley and Diamond Mountains
Diamond Mountains
The Diamond Mountains are a north-south mountain range in east-central Nevada northeast of Eureka. The range is along the Newark Valley and is part of the drainage divide demarcating the Little Smoky-Newark Watershed....

. The range lies in a north-south direction, and reaches an elevation of 7686 feet (2,343 m) at Bald Mountain. The range crosses into Elko County at the northeastern end.

The Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers America's public lands, totaling approximately , or one-eighth of the landmass of the country. The BLM also manages of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal, state and private...

 manages 80.7% of the Sulphur Spring Range, and 19.3% is privately held. Mammals found in the range include: the Long-tailed Vole
Long-tailed Vole
The Long-tailed Vole is a small vole found in western North America. The Coronation Island Vole, once considered to be a separate species, is now believed to be a subspecies....

, Great Basin pocket mouse
Great Basin Pocket Mouse
The Great Basin Pocket Mouse is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and the western United States.-Taxonomy:...

, and the Deer mouse. The Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas...

 and Mohave Desert sidewinder can also be found in the mountains.

Trees found in the range include: Utah Juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and Single-leaf Pinyon
Single-leaf Pinyon
The Single-leaf Pinyon, ', is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and southern California and northern Baja California.It occurs at moderate altitudes from...

(Pinus monophylla).
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