A Trout Unlimited
team drains Upper
Independence Creek,
in the Sierra Nevada.
To preserve a rare
native population of
Lahontan cutthroat
trout, the team is cull-
ing intruders: hybrids
carrying the genes
of rainbow trout. Until
the 1960s, California
stocked nearby Inde-
pendence Lake with
such non-native fish.
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