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GOOD NEWS FOR COLORADO NATIVE FISH
November 22, 2006 4:12 PM
archivesGOOD NEWS FOR COLORADO NATIVE FISH
In 1993 another Colorado native fish was named to the state's endangered species list: The Rio Grande Sucker. Found nowhere else in the world outside the Rio Grande river drainage in Colorado and New Mexico, these little fish have been the focus of Colorado Division of Wildlife biologists, who've been working to preserve and grow the number of remaining suckers. Their efforts got an unexpected boost last fall, when a new population of Rio Grande Suckers was discovered in Crestone Creek, in the San Luis Valley. Shanna Lewis reports.
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