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Photos: Students release rainbow trout into Boise River
2013-05-24 22:03:26| Waste Management - Topix.net
Students at Washington Elementary released rainbow trout into the Boise River Friday in conjunction with Boise WaterShed and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
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Cutthroat trout face upstream swim against climate change
2013-05-08 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Daily: Colorado's cutthroat trout live life on the edges, at high elevations and in isolated pockets other trout haven't been able to reach. It appears to have toughened them up, according to a recent study looking at climate change's impact on the species. Rising water temperatures, the Colorado State University study concludes, aren't impacting the indigenous fish like some of its non-native brothers. Results of the study, which included six streams in Summit County, indicate that the hardy fish...
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Lake Trout Are Bad News for Lake Yellowstone
2013-01-22 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: It's a case of trout versus trout, and in the face-off between native Yellowstone cutthroats (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) and the intruders on the scene, lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), the judgment handed down is a no-brainer. The lake trout must go. The problem, explained Pat Bigelow, a fisheries biologist at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, emerged in 1994 when lake trout were discovered in Yellowstone Lake. Why lake trout were introduced into the lake is a mystery. Perhaps, biologists...