Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area is a protected landscape in southwestern Utah, west of St. George near the Arizona and Nevada borders. Encompassing 63,500 acres, it is managed by the Bureau of Land Management within the National Landscape Conservation System and was authorized by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Drained by Beaver Dam Wash in the Virgin River watershed, the area preserves a broad expanse of Mojave Desert border country. It is important for safeguarding desert habitat, watershed resources, and species such as the desert tortoise, bighorn sheep, Joshua trees, and other threatened and sensitive plants and wildlife.