Alvord Cutthroat Trout, Not Extinct After All?

Someone might have to update the Alvord cutthroat trout Wiki page.

Alvord cutthroat trout were a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the Alvord Basin of southeast Oregon. It is believed they went extinct in their pure form due to hybridization with Rainbow trout which were introduced into the Alvord basin in the 1920s.

In 2005, Dr Robert Behnke wrote an article in Trout Magazine titled Ivory-Billed Trout where he noted that there were records of Alvord cutthroat being stocked into an unknown stream of a neighboring basin. This transplant took place in 1928, prior to the introduction of rainbow trout into the Alvord Basin leaving open the possibility that another population might exist.

Now the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has devised a plan to capture some specimens and determine whether they exhibit the phenotypic features of known Alvord cutthroat specimens.

LINK (via:The Wild Life News)

Read more about the effort to establish a population of Alvord cutthroat at Kortum of Discovery.