![]() ![]() The next day I drove along the roads outside Elko toward the upper tributaries of the Mary’s River. I spent the night in Elko, Nevada, lights flashing from casinos, the vibration of trucks on Route 80 shaking the water in the glass on my bedside table. ![]() I took Route 50 along Lake Tahoe and then into the desert wasteland, where the air hovered around 100 degrees. In September 2000, driving east from California to Colorado, I decided to stop in the desert to try to catch a native trout called the Humboldt cutthroat. The following is a rebuttal of sorts from painter and author James Prosek, who says “the word species-in the way it is used in public, conservationist, and even scientific circles-is insufficient to communicate biological reality.” It is an excerpt from the revised and updated Trout of the World (Abrams, 2013). ![]() All the other “greenbacks” they sampled were genetically much closer to Colorado River cutthroat trout. They concluded that only the greenbacks in Bear Creek closely matched the DNA of the museum specimens. Their study compared DNA samples taken from museum specimens of greenback trout to DNA from extant cutthroat trout populations across Colorado. The “Riffles & Runs” column of the Feb-Mar 2013 issue described a new DNA study published by Drs. ![]()
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