Sentences with phrase «greenback cutthroat»

Wrong fish restocked U.S. conservationists spent two decades restoring the greenback cutthroat trout to its former glory in the mountain streams of Colorado, finally succeeding last year in bringing the endangered species back up to 20 self - sustaining populations.

In Colorado, for instance, state and federal fisheries experts were recently spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year over five years to restore populations of a threatened subspecies of trout, the greenback cutthroat.

But a similar programme for Colorado's greenback cutthroat trout faltered after a 2012 genetic analysis showed that the restored fish weren't the right population.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the genetic diversity of the greenback population in the eastern Rockies is low compared to other subspecies of cutthroat, perhaps enough to have led to inbreeding.