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Protection of Alamitos Creek population of Rio Grande cutthroat trout
- New Mexico
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Fish passage
- In-stream and riparian habitat
- Rio Grande Cutthroat
A barrier will be constructed to protect of 7.5 stream miles inhabited by pure Rio Grande cutthroat trout from encroachment by nonnative salmonids. Construction of a permanent barrier would negate upstream movement of nonnative salmonids and protect of the resident Rio Grande cutthroat trout population.
Alamitos Creek Barrier Construction – A grant agreement was recently completed with the national office of Trout Unlimited, with assistance by the Truchas TU Chapter based in Santa Fe. U.S. Forest Service personnel are in the process of completing NEPA documentation and
engineering design for the project. TU currently holds the funding for use in barrier construction during 2009.
Alamitos Creek supports a large core population of pure Rio Grande cutthroat trout
threatened by invasion of nonnative salmonids leading to hybridization, predation and competition impacts.
Alamitos is a multi-year project where environmental compliance will be acquired the first year with barrier construction immediately following. This project satisfies the WNTI Joint Venture's goal of building, funding, and implementing collaborative conservation efforts. Nonnative salmonids threaten this population of several thousand Rio Grande cutthroat trout.
- The project would ensure protection of the existing population and benefit ongoing Rio Grande Cutthroat trout conservation efforts.
- Trout Unlimited
- U.S. Forest Service
- New Mexico Game and Fish Department
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during y study mcts exams i have done much research on it .specially on my project,The purpose of this project is to place a permanent barrier to fish passage on
Alamitos Creek. Alamitos Creek rises in the Pecos Wilderness on the Camino Real Ranger District of the Carson National Forest (the Carson) and flows into the Rio Pueblo, a tributary of the Rio Grande.
The 4,500 pure Rio Grande Cutthroats have until now been protected from encroachment from non-native trout by an irrigation diversion dam and by the periodic dewatering of Alamitos Creek below the diversion.well...more reserach work is carry on...wait for the best :-)