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Paiute report may pave way for creek poisoning

Posted by: Maven on March 17, 2010 at 7:04 am

From the Stockton Record:

“An effort to reintroduce America’s rarest trout – the Paiute cutthroat – to 11 miles of wilderness stream appears to be back on track after state game officials Tuesday issued a final environmental impact report for the project.

The Paiute cutthroat is a paler cousin to the Lahontan cutthroat that has been genetically isolated in a few streams in what is now Alpine County since at least the end of the last ice age 6,000 years ago, scientists say.

But they also say the trout’s in danger of disappearing because other trout species – especially rainbows – have been introduced into streams where the rainbows can interbreed with the Paiutes.

State and federal game officials teamed up on a plan to poison 11 miles of lower Silver King Creek near Markleeville to eradicate the non-native trout and clear the way to expand the range of the Paiute cutthroat, which now live mostly in upper Silver King Creek above Llewellyn Falls. … “

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March 17, 2010 · Filed Under Lake Tahoe, the Sierras & foothills

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