Government agencies to poison Alpine County creek
An Alpine County creek is going to be chemically treated later this month to help establish the native Paiute cutthroat trout.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S Forest Service, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to use rotenone, a fish toxicant, in 11 miles of Silver King Creek and its tributaries from Llewellyn Falls downstream to Silver King Canyon. The lower reaches of Tamarack Creek, Tamarack Lake Creek and Coyote Valley Creek will also be treated.
Later the agencies will restock Silver King Creek with native Paiute cutthroat trout. This is the only place in the world where this fish lives.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife website, the Paiute was listed as endangered on March 11, 1967, and reclassified as threatened on July 16, 1975.
The problem is the state stocked the remote wilderness area creek with nonnative fish for nearly 90 years starting in the early 1900s. Those fish are the same ones the DFWS now seeks to kill.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
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Poisoning a creek or a lake with rotenone is never a good idea! Net them and relocate the fish or use them as food. Don’t dump toxic chemicals into our streams!
Net the fish and don’t use poison to kill the fish Poison?.Thats your solution??? I’m sure you will have great luck in ruining a piece of water as you look the other way.
Take care and don’t pollute, Old Long Skiis
Please don’t let the EPA help.
Because adding poison to our environment is always such a good thing…and this worked so well in Lake Davis.
Have these government agencies prepared, circulated, and submitted for review and approval an Environmental Impact Report as others would be required to do? This is a lengthy and complex process for anyone else.