At least two endangered fish species will gain access today to the highest reaches of the range, locked off for the past century by the Price-Stubb Dam. Chocolate-brown water from the Colorado River on Thursday morning trickled down the fresh gray concrete of the fish passage at the mouth of De Beque Canyon. By today, the detour will fill with water from the river, giving the Colorado pikeminnow and the razorback sucker a detour around the dam, letting them swim the river as high as Rifle. Whether any of the fish take immediate advantage of the $10 million passage around the Price-Stubb through the muddy Colorado waters might not be known immediately. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said they will check a fish ladder upstream from the Price-Stubb to see how well the passage is being used.

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