* New Washoe City

* Washoe City

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 Washoe were confined to the area south of Carson City, and they were deprived from owning horses.

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

Hearst hurried over to the Washoe dstrict of western Utah territore, where he arranged to buy a one-sixth interest in the Ophir Mine there, near present day Virginia City.

His efforts during this period included founding Washoe City, building smelters in Pleasant Valley and Austin, and becoming an early promoter for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

* 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 )

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

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

New Washoe City is an unincorporated community located in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

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.

The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact.

* The university was home to the signing chimpanzee Washoe from 1980 until her death in October 2007 ; from 1993 at the university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

Washoe County was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory.

In 2010, there was a ballot question asking whether the Reno city government and the Washoe County government should become one combined governmental body.

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

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

R. Allen and Beatrix Gardner made a similar earlier study, called Project Washoe, in which another chimpanzee was raised like a human child.

Washoe was given affection and participated in everyday social activity with her adoptive family.

Washoe lived 24 hours a day with her human family from birth ; Nim at 2 weeks old was raised by a family in a home environment by human surrogate parents to see if he could refute Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is inherent only in humans.

Project Nim was an attempt to go further than Project Washoe.

Terrace, however, was skeptical of Project Washoe and, according to the critics, went to great lengths to discredit it.

Roger Fouts, of the Washoe Project, also claims that Project Nim was poorly conducted because it did not use strong enough methodology to avoid such comparisons and efficiently defend against them.

Fouts later reported, however, that a community of ASL-speaking chimpanzees ( including Washoe herself ) was spontaneously using this language as a part of their internal communication system.

In 1994, a Washoe County elementary school was named in Winnemucca's honor.

Mills Bee Lane III ( born November 12, 1936 ) is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two-term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality.

She is well known for her comparative studies into the cognitive fundamentals of language and communication, and was one of the first to try to extend work on language learning in animals other than humans ( exemplified by the Washoe project ) to a bird species.

* Washoe ( chimpanzee ) -- a chimpanzee that was taught by humans to speak in American Sign Language

* Before it was made a Territory, Nevada was popularly known as Washoe

Washoe ( c. September 1965 Ellensburg – October 30, 2007 ) was a female chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.

Washoe was born in West Africa in 1965.

Washoe was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL.

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 experienced an identity crisis when she was first introduced to other chimpanzees.

' OK but first clothes ' ( Washoe puts on jacket.

Washoe ( chimpanzee ) | Washoe, a female Common Chimpanzee | chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a animal research | research experiment on animal language acquisition.

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.

The late Washoe, a 42-year-old female chimpanzee, was the first of the signing apes and one of the most famous.

Washoe is the first non-human primate to learn some rudimentary forms of ASL, a true human language.

Washoe City, founded in August 1861, was the first county seat of Washoe County.