THE WESTERNER

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Biologists rescue native Rio Grande cutthroat trout from area threatened by NM wildfire

Nearly 50 native Rio Grande cutthroat trout have been rescued from a creek that's being threatened by a wildfire in northern New Mexico. Biologists hiked about 2 miles up Macho Creek in the Santa Fe National Forest on Wednesday and removed 49 trout. Officials say the rescue mission will ensure the pure strain of native fish will survive if the Tres Lagunas Fire threatens the area. The fish were taken to a hatchery for safekeeping. They will be returned to the creek if it's spared by the fire...more

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Oh Good! Were they the same biologists who planted German Brown's and Rainbows in all of the creeks in the Pecos watershed? That was kinda hard on the Rio Grande Cutthroat wasn't it? Now with the let burn attitude and the no timber sales and the proliferation of wilderness the runoff from these fires will fill the streams with untold amounts of sediment. Take a bow environmentalists!; 9:00 AM