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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has introduced they’ll be closing a portion of the Arkansas River close to Salida to take away a dam, in response to NBC9 Information. This dam elimination is solely centered on opening up greater than 85 miles of upstream habitat to trout beneath the dam. Doing so will give the fish within the river the chance to create extra genetically numerous populations.
Dam elimination is all the time one thing to rejoice, even when it’s serving to nonnative sportfish on this case. The dam was initially constructed to seize water for a hatchery situated downstream on the Arkansas, however that hatchery has since been retrofitted to work on spring water as an alternative, to scale back the potential of introducing illness into its fish populations.
You may learn extra about this dam elimination venture right here.
