Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
May 1, 2009--Greenback cutthroat found in Utah for first time (Aspen Times)
Utah wildlife officials have confirmed that there is a tiny population of rare greenback cutthroat trout in a small creek in the LaSal Mountains east of Moab.
November 20, 2008--Invasive mussel confirmed in Utah's Electric Lake (Denver Post)
Trouble-making zebra mussels have arrived in Utah. But not where they were expected to show up.
November 4, 2008--Mussels likely in Utah (Pueblo Chieftain)
Invasive, damaging mussels have likely arrived in Utah waters but it probably won’t be confirmed until next summer, according to a state wildlife official.
October 16, 2008--Feds will look at tiny fish, decide on listing (Denver Post)
A silver bite-sized fish in western Utah may need federal protections to survive, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday.
August 26, 2008--Fish sticks, fertilizer, biodiesel? Utah looks for uses for 6 million unwanted carp (L.A. Times)
The June sucker, which is known to live only in Utah Lake and its tributaries, has been listed as an endangered species since 1986, when biologists estimated there were fewer than 1,000 left. In recent years, about 100,000 June suckers have been raised in a hatchery and dropped into the lake.
August 9, 2008--Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake (Denver Post)
The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury.
