Every year since 2008, a group of good Samaritans and local agencies carry bags of Rio Grande cutthroat trout fingerlings and travel to steep sections of the gorge to be released back into the river.

Logging, road building, livestock grazing, pollution, hybridization and global warming are combining to push Rio Grande cutthroat toward extinction. Today’s decision is inconsistent with the Service’s ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Rio Grande Cutthroat trout is a staple in the waterways of New Mexico but that landscape was left nearly unrecognizable in the wake of the Hermits Peak Calf Canyon… ...

A Rio Grande cutthroat trout rescued from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire on June 9, 2022, near Holman, New Mexico. New Mexico Department of Game & Fish/AP ...

Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout get a new lease on life State fish is back in the swim after 30-plus-year restoration project ... Updated: 2:29 PM MDT Jul 2, 2023 Editorial Standards ⓘ Hamilton Kahn ...

Caitlin Ruhl and her 4-year-old son Roberto, from Santa Fe, deliver a large Rio Grande cutthroat trout to its new home in the Rio Costilla on Saturday. They were among dozens of volunteers helping ...

The Rio Grande cutthroat is one of three native trout indigenous to Colorado, per CPW. The other two are the Colorado River cutthroat (found on Colorado's Western Slope) and the Greenback ...

Large numbers of Rio Grande cutthroat trout once swam the cool, clear waterways of southern Colorado and New Mexico. Even famed conservationist Aldo Leopold — who condemned state and federal agencies' ...

Removal of other fish is necessary because non-native trout compete, prey on and sometimes hybridize with Rio Grande cutthroat trout, according to the CPW. The CPW says rotenone is a "registered ...

“If you’d asked me my favorite fish when I was 5 years old, I would’ve said Rio Grande cutthroat trout.” But Vigil’s beloved fish has fallen on hard times.

Every year since 2008, a group of good Samaritans and local agencies carry bags of Rio Grande cutthroat trout fingerlings and travel to steep sections of the gorge to be released back into the river.