Colorado Outdoors - the Podcast for Colorado Parks and Wildlife
S1E22: 1.22 - Rescuing the Hayden Creek Cutthroat Trout - Dec. 13, 2021
Cutthroat trout with unique genetics, rescued by Colorado Parks and Wildlife aquatic biologists from the Hayden Pass Fire in 2016 - is the story of this Colorado Outdoors podcast episode. CPW is taking extraordinary steps to preserve the Hayden Creek Cuthtroat Trout because they contain genetic markers that match a museum specimen collected from the Arkansas River basin in the late 1800's.