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Coming home to Colorado's high country/ Greenback recovery successful, ongoing
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The novelist was wrong. Greenback cutthroat trout can go home
again - but only with a helping hand from their admirers and a grant
of greenback dollars for their restoration.
Once the only species of trout in the Arkansas and South Platte
River drainages, greenbacks began disappearing in the late 1800s.
Declining water quality, hungry miners, and competition and
interbreeding from non-native fish like brook, rainbow and other
strains of cutthroat trout all took their toll.
Greenbacks gradually disappeared from the state, and were
thought extinct until a pure strain was found in the ...
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