Conservation program looks to buy land home to Northwest Las Vegas owl preserve

Did you know there’s an owl preserve in Northwest Las Vegas?

It’s called the Rainbow Owl Preserve, and if you blink you’d miss it — it spans two plots of land near Gilcrease Orchard, tucked in between homes on the corners of Rainbow Boulevard and Jo Marcy Drive, and Donald Nelson Avenue and Rio Vista Street.

More than 100 burrowing owls have fledged — when a bird gets its adult feathers and is able to fly and leave the nest — over the six acre preserve in the last decade…

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