Trout shows up in unexpected place

Posted by egable on September 24th, 2007 filed in Endangered species

Researchers have found a native trout once thought to be limited to a few streams along the Front Range in western Colorado, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. University of Colorado graduate student Jessica Metcalf has found that some isolated populations of greenback trout, a subspecies of cutthroat trout listed as a threatened species, carry genes of Colorado River cutthroat trout. The discovery has led some Colorado legislators to accuse the Division of Wildlife of a “significant scientific blunder” in its Colorado River cutthroat recovery program.