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July 27, 2012--Water cleared for native trout (Durango Herald)

Biologists on Monday will start second-phase treatment in the Hermosa Creek watershed to create a home for native Colorado River cutthroat trout. Colorado Parks and Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service personnel will apply Rotenone to kill non-native fish, specifically brook trout. Rotenone, derived from the root of a tropical plant, is registered by the Environmental Protection Agency as a pesticide. It degrades quickly, leaves no residue and is no threat to humans or other wildlife. “We did the first treatment last summer,” Joe Lewandowski, a parks and wildlife spokesman, said Thursday. “Then in June they went back to electroshock, which found fish that can live in little water.” The Rotenone applied this week will catch all survivors, Lewandowski said. In late summer or in the fall, native Colorado River cutthroat will be stocked in that section of the stream, Lewandowski said.

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