Editor's Letter: Trout Bitten
A SILVERY FLASH in the narrow Whitewater Creek pool meant that I was close. But the shadowy fish disappeared along the rocky canyon wall just as quickly. The tight quarters under the Catwalk National…
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Tag: Gila Trout
Hooked on Gila Trout
“SOME PEOPLE WANT to just go catch a fish,” says Kirk Patten, chief of fisheries for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. “Others will fly all the way across the country to fish for a native…
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Reeling In Conservation
“THIS IS WHERE EGGS GO,” Leonard Rice says, while pulling out a shallow drawer containing water and tiny apricot-colored spheres. The Glenwood Fish Hatchery manager is charged with spawning and…
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Tales of the Gila Trout
Above: Biologists have spent decades attempting to bring back New Mexico's native Gila trout. Illustration by Mike Reagan. A CANYON WREN SANG AND THE NOTES fell one by one, as if dropping from…
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