Flying in threatened Gila trout from USFWS

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Published: 06 December 2016 06 December 2016

Wear and tear on boot soles and a helicopter'that's what it took to get 1,033 Gila trout safely placed in the remote headwaters of Mineral Creek, well inside the Gila National Forest of southwestern New Mexico.On November 18, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) working with its partner agencies, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the Gila National Forest, released two age classes of Gila trout into Mineral Creek ranging up to a foot long. The rare yellow trout were spawned in captivity in early 2015 and 2016 at the Service's Mora National Fish Hatchery. Videography Credit Craig Springer/USFWS.

See photos below the video.

 

 

All photos by Craig Springer USFWS

 

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Gila trout brought in by helicopter to stock Mineral Creek