Non-Native Fish to be Removed from Parts of Rocky Mountain National Park

A bit of the western aspect of Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park will shut for the ultimate week of August, as state biologists work to take away all non-native fish from the Grand Ditch and its tributaries throughout the park. It will enable for the reintroduction of buck cutthroat trout—Colorado’s state fish—to their native vary within the headwaters of the Cache la Poudre River, the Nationwide Park Service (NPS) stated. Non-native trout, together with brook trout, are at the moment in these waters. The hassle is a part of the Poudre Headwaters Challenge, a keystone enterprise for the Rocky Mountain Flycasters Chapter of Trout Unlimited, and can be led by biologists with the U.S. Forest Service.

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