The Wall Street Journal generally leaves a spot on its front page for a story you wouldn’t expect.
Often it has nothing to do with business. It’s usually a little weird. And it’s always well written.
Today’s is about the Paiute trout, a subspecies of the Lahontan cutthroat, that is the rarest trout in North American.
Federal and state game officials are trying to restore it in its tiny home range, a nine-mile stretch of Silver King Creek in the Sierra Nevada wilderness. Allies of bugs in the same water are fighting the effort in court, saying restoration would hurt the insect population.
Basically, biologists what to put a chemical called rotenone into the creek to kill the nonnative fish before restoring the cutthroat. Opponents say the chemical would also hurt the population of caddis and stoneflies.
They say the revival is mostly effort is mostly from people who want to fish for a rare species.
“It’s a fishing agenda cloaked in environmental language,” Ann McCampbell, who filed the lawsuit, is quoted as saying.
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