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Losing a Colorado Native: The Case of the Greenback Cutthroat Trout

Catch and release fishing in the Rockies. (Photo/Gavin Griffin)

by Charles Trowbridge The greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish and one of its last remaining native trout species, is once again in danger of extinction. The iconic fish was actually declared extinct once, in the late 1930s, but in 1973 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discovered small pockets of genetically pure greenback trout, …

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