Nevada's State Artifact - TULE DUCK DECOY. Click here for additional details. Click here to display Nevada's State Symbols complete with pictures and explanations! Nevada's State Slogan, "BATTLE BORN". Click here for additional details. Nevada State Gem - BLACK FIRE OPAL. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Fish - LANONTAN CUTTHROAST. Click here for additional details. Nevada Semi Precious Gemstone - TURQUOISE. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State SEAL- This beautiful state seal was handpainted and is currently hanging in the Nevada Room at the Governor's Mansion! Click here for additional details.Nevada's State SEAL- This beautiful state seal was handpainted and is currently hanging in the Nevada Room at the Governor's Mansion! Click here for additional details.Nevada's State SEAL- This beautiful state seal was handpainted and is currently hanging in the Nevada Room at the Governor's Mansion! Click here for additional details.Nevada's State SEAL- This beautiful state seal was handpainted and is currently hanging in the Nevada Room at the Governor's Mansion! Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Animial - BIG HORN SHEEP. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Reptile - THE DESERT TORTOISE. The Desert Tourtoise is the largest reptile in the Southwestern United States. It can live to be more than 70 years old! Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Bird - MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State SONG - "Home Means Nevada", was written by an imigrant, Mrs. Bertha Raffetto. While living in Reno, Mrs. Raffetto was asked to write and sing a song about Nevada for a picnic. It was adopted in 1933 as Nevada's state song! Nevada's State FLAG. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Rock - SANDSTONE. This rock can be seen in the Valley of Fire State Park in southern Nevada. Students at Gene Ward Elementary School in Las Vegas came up with the idea of making sandstone our state rock. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State Fossil - ICHTHYOSAUR became a state symbol in 1977 as the state fossil. Nevada is the only state to possess a complete skeleton (55 feet) of this extinct marine reptile. Click here for additional details. Nevada's state flower- SAGEBRUSH, which is really a bush. It has small yellow and white flowers in the spring. Native Americans used sagebrush leaves as medicine and sagebrush bark for weaving mats. Click here for additional details. Nevada's State metal - SILVER. Nevada has many minerals, but silver was one of the most important minerals in Nevada's mining days! Click here for additional details. bristlecone tree grass Nevada State Symbols

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