Again, support is stronger in the rural areas ( where most people were born in Nevada ) and weaker in Clark County and Washoe County ; women are more opposed to the idea than men.

However, the results, according to Fouts, were not as impressive as had been reported from the Washoe project.

Relations with the Washoe people, who were culturally and linguistically very different, were not so peaceful.

They established small Indian colonies, where they were joined by many Shoshone and, in the Reno area, Washoe people.

While with Washoe, the Gardners and Fouts were careful to only communicate in ASL with Washoe, rather than using vocal communication, on the assumption that this would create a less confusing learning environment for Washoe.

After the first couple of years of the language project, the Gardners and Roger Fouts discovered that Washoe could pick up ASL gestures without operant conditioning methods by observing humans around her that were signing amongst themselves.

Washoe and her mates were able to combine the hundreds of signs that they learned into novel combinations ( that they had never been taught, but rather created themselves ) with different meanings.

So when two botanists from California found a distinct tree in western Nevada in 1948 with some marked differences from the Ponderosa Pine they were familiar with in California, they described it as a new species, Washoe Pine, Pinus washoensis.

The Washoe people and the neighboring Northern Paiute people were culturally and linguistically very different, and they sometimes came into conflict.

Washoe resistance to incursions on their lands proved futile, and the last armed conflict with the Washoes and non-Indians was the " Potato War " of 1857, when starving Washoes were killed for gathering potatoes from a European-American farm near Honey Lake in California.

Rails were extended North across the Washoe valley, from Carson City to Reno, where it connects with the Central Pacific.

Other amalgamation processes were later developed, importantly the pan amalgamation process, and its variant, the Washoe process.

Scenes were also shot at Washoe Lake State Park at 4855 Eastlake Boulevard in Carson City.

The Washoe were right in that they would not be able to find food or game, and they ended up resorting to eating dog, horse, and mule just to survive.

Settlers named the area Washoe in reference to the tribe.

Washoe County includes the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.

It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area.

The soils of the Cotati area are characterized by recent alluvial materials, explicitly those areas bordering the Laguna de Santa Rosa and its tributary Washoe Creek.

The Verdi area is served by the Washoe County School District.

The area around Lake Tahoe was originally inhabited by the Washoe tribe of Native Americans.

Prior to the creation of the Nevada Territory, the area was part of western Utah Territory and was known as Washoe, after the native Washoe people.

The Washoe Indians also visited the area.

Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the colonies in the Carson Valley area of Nevada and California gained federal recognition as the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California.

There is evidence of Paiute and Washoe settlements in the Long Valley area.

Reno / Stead Airport is a large general aviation airport located in the North Valleys area, northwest of the central business district of Reno, a city in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

The high wind area ends near the Bowers Mansion interchange near the northern end of Washoe Valley.

* 1964 – 70: Washoe Valley — Washoe County – Carson City line north to Winters Ranch area ( junction Carson-Reno Highway / US 395 and Old Highway 395 / SR 429 )

Ebbetts Pass was used by the Miwok and Washoe Indians in the area to cross the mountains, and it was most likely the route taken by Jedediah Smith in late spring of 1827 when leaving California at the urging of Mexican officials, as well as by John Bidwell on his emigration to California.

* Washoe County, Nevada-( south )

Prior to contact with Europeans, the territory of the Washoe people was roughly bounded by the southern shore of Honey Lake in the north, the west fork of the Walker River in the south, the Sierra Nevada crest in the west, and the first range east of the Sierra Nevada in the east.

* 2006: Carson City — Washoe County – Carson City line ( N. Carson Street ) south to E. William Street ( US 50 )

In 1871, with tracks yet to be built south through the Washoe Valley to Carson City, this temporary rail terminus became an important transfer point for passengers and freight heading up the Geiger Grade on stagecoaches bound for Virginia City and the mines of the Comstock Lode.

Lake Tahoe was the center and heart of Washoe Indian territory, including the upper valleys of the Walker, Carson and Truckee Rivers.

In Nevada, Lake Tahoe is divided among Washoe County, Douglas County and Carson City ( an independent city ).

The vast majority of Nevada's population lives in counties where all forms of prostitution are illegal, namely Clark ( which contains Las Vegas ), Washoe ( which contains Reno ), Douglas, and Lincoln counties, and Carson City ( an independent city ).

As of 2009, prostitution is illegal under state law in Clark County ( which contains Las Vegas ) and under county or municipal law in Washoe County ( which contains Reno ), Carson City ( an independent city ), Douglas County, and Lincoln County.

The larger and more southwesterly Toiyabe National Forest is located generally in central, western, and southern Nevada and eastern California, in parts of Nye, Lander, Mineral, Lyon, Eureka, Washoe, Douglas, and Clark counties and Carson City in Nevada, and Mono, Alpine, Sierra, Nevada, Lassen, and El Dorado counties in California.

* Nye, Elko, White Pine, Lander, Humboldt, Mineral, Lyon, Eureka, Washoe, Douglas, Clark, Lincoln, Carson City

The Washo language ( Washo: wá: šiw ʔítlu ) ( also Washoe ) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California – Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe.

After rejoining the original alignment of US 395 near the Carson – Tahoe Hospital the highway crests Lakeview Hill to enter Washoe Valley.

It comprises the counties of Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and Washoe.

New Washoe City is located in the Washoe Valley in southern Washoe County between Reno and Carson City, on the east side of Washoe Lake.

New Washoe City's ZIP code is 89704 and is associated with Washoe Valley, although it is commonly also associated with Carson City, even though it is entirely within Washoe County borders.

The highway serves Douglas County and Washoe County as well as a rural part of Carson City