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Whiskey Creek Gila Trout lineage rescue


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#1 mattknepley

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Posted 30 January 2015 - 09:20 PM

This is a pretty cool video.

http://www.fws.gov/n...ned-to-the-Wild
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#2 Sean Phillips

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Posted 31 January 2015 - 03:02 PM

Very cool. Nice looking trout too!
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#3 Matt DeLaVega

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Posted 03 February 2015 - 03:08 PM

Is there something particularly special about whiskey creek gila trout? I know that the species has been in bad shape in the past, and is recovering a bit now, but are the whiskey creek strain separated from other gila trout by say a waterfall, or some other natural barrier that makes them unique?

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#4 mattknepley

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Posted 03 February 2015 - 04:20 PM

I can't answer that definitively, but that's the vibe I got from the video. I assume dozens of creeks get silt/ash choked to death in fires every year. For this much to be invested in the "Whiskey River lineage", there's got to be something extraordinary about them, I would think.
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