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Bonneville cutthroat trout renovation for three miles on South Fork Chalk Creek
- Utah
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Fish passage
- Genetic diversity
- Bonneville Cutthroat
Two culverts were replaced on the South Fork of Chalk Creek that had been impeding the upstream migration of Colorado River cutthroat trout. One culvert will be replaced and a small bridge will be built in the place of the other culvert. This will reopen 2.64 miles of stream for Colorado River cutthroat trout.
Bonneville cutthroat trout are only found in the Bonneville Basin of Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. Recent declines in the population may require the species to be listed as endangered. Bonneville cutthroat trout is the Utah State fish.
Bonneville cutthroat trout populations have declined on the Goshute Indian Reservation because of habitat loss and impacts from introduced nonnative rainbow trout. As a result, this fish species has been petitioned for federal listing under the Endangered Species Act.
- The Utah Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Office will partner with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the U.S. Forest Service, to improve fish passage in the South Fork of Chalk Creek on the Wasatch National Forest in northeastern Utah to increase stream habitat for Bonneville cutthroat trout.
- Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
- Trout Unlimited
- Six Feathers ranch
- Cache Anglers
- Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative
- National Fish Habitat Action Plan
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