Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen Danger for Struggling Fish

Climate-Fueled Wildfires Worsen Danger for Struggling Fish

By JOHN FLESHER and BRITTANY PETERSON

Source: Associated Press

9/21/2022

Credit: AP Photo/Brittany Peterson

After a wildfire roared through northern New Mexico this summer, state and federal biologists rescued scores of Rio Grande cutthroat trout from a small stream.

Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek.

Rio Grande

Rio Grande cutthroat trout

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