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Recovery plan approved for ‘rarest trout in America’
Sacramento, California - The U.S. Forest Service approved a plan Tuesday to restore what wildlife officials call "the rarest trout in America" to 11 miles of a Sierra Nevada creek after first removing nonnative fish from the waterway.
The plan is controversial because the planned removal this fall involves the use of a fish poison to eliminate competition from the nonnative trout. That prompted an environmental group's lawsuit that delayed the process for a year while a federal environmental impact statement was prepared.