Hayden Creek Cutthroat trout have actually shown to be real survivors. Image: Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Among the nation’s rarest trout subspecies is making an impressive resurgence in southeastern Colorado. As Chris Hunt reports in Hatch publication, the Hayden Creek aggressive was almost erased by wildfire in 2016, however biologists have actually made a shocking discovery:
A native aggressive trout discovered just in the Arkansas River drain of southern Colorado, and as soon as on the edge of termination, is now recreating naturally in waters where it was reestablished after a destructive wildfire erased much of its native environment 9 years back.
The last recognized Hayden Creek aggressive trout– most likely most carefully associated to Colorado’s state fish, the greenback aggressive trout– were actually pulled from an active fire zone on Hayden Pass in 2016 in order to keep the fish from winking out completely. Simply last fall, Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists validated that reestablished populations of the fish were recreating, and, more significantly, they reported, the fish had actually replicated numerous times because they were reestablished in their once-native waters.
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For some background on the rescue efforts to conserve the Hayden Creek aggressive, listen to this brief 2021 podcast:
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