Nevada Independent: Lahontan cutthroat trout were once wiped from Tahoe. Scientists have them spawning again.
/For thousands of years, Lahontan cutthroat trout swam in the expansive waters of Lake Tahoe.
But by 1938, the fish — affected by European settlers’ actions in the Tahoe Basin by such as logging, overfishing, construction of dams and water diversions, and the introduction of non-native species — disappeared.
European settlers offset the lack of large fish by stocking Lake Tahoe with non-native species but for decades, the lake was devoid of Lahontan cutthroat trout.
A Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) project is changing that.