When it comes to genetic diversity, the cutthroat blows all other trout out of the water. You’ll find them scattered across ...

A rare trout species native to Colorado is making a comeback with a surprising strategy called "Trojan trout."  What's ...

Meanwhile, as the Lahontan cutthroat trout began to decline, other non-native species like kokanee salmon, rainbow trout and lake trout were introduced. The last spawning of the Lahontan cutthroat ...

they are an important and popular trout species in their own right. Members of the Salmonidae family, cutthroat are native to Pacific Ocean tributaries, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Basin.

As the lake trout population has been reduced by nearly three decades of netting, Yellowstone Lake’s native cutthroat trout have slowly rebounded and gotten bigger — a lot bigger.

Cutthroat trout In 1805, below the Missouri River's Great Falls, the Lewis and Clark expedition recorded their first trout species. Onchorhynchus clarkii lewisi, more commonly referred to as the ...

The green lineage cutthroat trout, a subspecies of Colorado River cutthroat trout, is native to the Bobtail, McQueary and Steelman creeks in Grand County, about 15 miles southwest of Winter Park. The ...

The native westslope cutthroat trout (named for the slash of red on its throat) is staging a comeback after decades of losing ground to its immigrant cousins in the Rocky Mountains. Robert M.

Then it drops. Invasive species have been threatening Yellowstone’s native fish—Yellowstone and Westslope cutthroat trout and arctic grayling—since shortly after the park’s inception in 1872.

Without a reproducing population, CPW said, the brook trout will eventually die out, allowing for the native cutthroat to be restored. “This is a pretty historic moment for Colorado and native ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will continue its project to conserve native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the upper Shields River watershed. The project is to address the ...