The greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, was declared extinct over 50 years ago. But last week officials found the first confirmation that the trout are once again reproducing in ...

And in their place, it released Colorado River cutthroat trout, giving the waterway to the native fish for the first time in probably 100 years. “And we’re going to work real hard to keep it ...

A San Juan cutthroat trout specimen collected in Colorado has been stored in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History since 1874. It was used earlier this year to confirm the San Juan ...

Cutthroat trout in the Bobtail and Steelman creeks are some of the highest-valued native cutthroat populations in the headwaters of the Colorado River basin, CPW said. They are considered a ...

MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - Colorado cutthroat trout with unique genetics are now swimming in waterways on Pikes Peak as Colorado Parks and Wildlife works to make sure a species rescued from a ...

Four subspecies of cutthroat trout are native to Colorado: The yellowfin cutthroat (currently believed to be extinct); the Rio Grande cutthroat in the San Luis Valley and New Mexico; the greenback ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says they've found the greenback cutthroat trout naturally reproducing, after the species was considered extinct in 1937. There's been intense efforts to bring them ...

These are the tools you'll need to extract sperm from some of the rarest trout in the world: a towel, a small glass dish like those used on cooking shows to hold chopped ingredients, gloves, fish ...

Diversity, distribution of cutthroat trout in Colorado clarified Date: September 24, 2012 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: A novel genetic study has helped to clarify the native ...

How Denver Water is helping protect native cutthroat trout in Grand County. By Jay Adams. Hidden in the hills below the Continental Divide in a remote section of Grand County, Colorado, are several ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is draining the Rito Hondo Reservoir and is applying a piscicide to kill off existing fish before the agency reintroduces native Rio Grande cutthroat trout.

Colorado’s state fish, the greenback cutthroat trout, was once considered completely extinct, but state biologists announced Friday that the species is now reproducing on its own.