When the fish was netted, the anglers noticed the red slash under its jaw, indicating it was a cutthroat trout. “I was stunned that it was a cutthroat because of its size,” Whitesitt told ...

After eight years, biologists have found that a unique kind of cutthroat trout from Hayden Creek in ... resources of Colorado and this is a perfect example,” Foutz said.

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 the ...

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 ...

“So basically our recovery goals for cutthroat trout are 40 fish per net — that would be a perfect situation and put us back to where we were before the lake trout invasion — but we have ...