Group pours years into protecting, reviving Roan Plateau creek
Volunteers from around the state spent a day earlier this month planting willows along Trapper Creek on the Roan Plateau, improving the habitat for a small population of pure Colorado River cutthroat trout. The fish are threatened by a variety of sources, including loss of habitat, energy development and livestock grazing.
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Volunteers from around the state spent a day earlier this month planting willows along Trapper Creek on the Roan Plateau, improving the habitat for a small population of pure Colorado River cutthroat trout. The fish are threatened by a variety of sources, including loss of habitat, energy development and livestock grazing.
By
Dave Buchanan
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Nearly two decades after the local Trout Unlimited chapter unofficially adopted Trapper Creek, a small stream burbling from the sandstone layers atop the Roan Plateau, the changes are…
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