Colorado Seeks Permit to Save Rare Cutthroat Trout
Published Date: 5/22/2026
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Summary
Colorado Parks and Wildlife wants a special permit to help save the greenback cutthroat trout, a rare fish in Colorado. This permit would let them and local landowners work together on projects to protect and grow the trout’s population. The public can share their thoughts by June 22, 2026, as this plan moves forward without big environmental hurdles or extra costs.
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Permit enables reintroductions on private lands
Colorado Parks and Wildlife applied for a 20-year enhancement of survival permit that would let CPW and enrolled nonfederal landowners carry out reintroductions and conservation work for the greenback cutthroat trout across listed Colorado counties (Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Park, Jefferson, Douglas, El Paso, and Teller). The CBA covers lands in the South Platte River Basin and Bear Creek in the Arkansas River Basin and would authorize habitat restoration, preventing non-native fish invasion, water-quality improvements, erosion and sedimentation reduction, riparian improvements, and related land-use practices on enrolled lands.
20-year regulatory assurance for enrolled landowners
The CBA requests a 20-year permit and promises that, as long as enrolled landowners properly implement the CBA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not impose additional requirements or restrictions beyond those voluntarily agreed to and described in the CBA. This regulatory assurance applies to enrolled nonfederal landowners during the CBA term.
Enrolled landowners must implement conservation actions
Under the CBA, participating landowners will work with CPW to restore greenback cutthroat trout populations and to improve or change land-management actions (for example, habitat improvements, preventing non-native fish, water-quality and riparian improvements, and erosion and sediment control) on enrolled nonfederal lands in the listed Colorado counties during the CBA term.
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