Areas of Kawuneeche Valley to close for Colorado state fish reintroduction project

Areas of Kawuneeche Valley to close for Colorado state fish reintroduction project

From August 24 to 30, Rocky Mountain National Park will close the Colorado River Trail and the Grand Ditch for work on a project that could help save the greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish. Since immigrants began arriving to the Front Range in the mid-1800s, mining pollution, fishing and water diversions from streams for agriculture have caused the greenback cutthroat trout population to decline rapidly,  the Center for Biological …