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3. Present Distribution (Fig I) - Once thought to be extinct, pure strains have been identified from the following areas. a) Como Creek, tributary of North Boulder Creek, Roosevelt N. F., Boulder County, Colo. Behnke (1973 a) also identified populations of "virtually pure but probably with a slight influence of Yellowstone cutthroat trout and possibly rain- bow trout" in the following: b) headwaters of Big Thompson River, Forest Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park; Island Lake, headwaters of N. Boulder Creek, Boulder„Co., Colo. (Roosevelt N.F.); c) South Huerfano Cr., tributary of the Huerfano River (Arkansas drainage), Huerfano Co., Colo.; d) Little South Poudre River, Roosevelt N.F., Larimer Co., Colo. 4. Existing Management Plans a) An extrapiated population of pure S. c. stomias from Albion Creek, tributary of Boulder Creek, Boulder Co., Colo., has been stocked into Black Hollow Cr., tribu- tary of the Poudre River, Larimer Co., Colo., after eratication of existing species in 1967. Additional transplants into Black Hollow Cr., Roosevelt N.F., have come from Como Creek and a self-reproducing popu- lation now exists. Hourglass Cr., Poudre River drainage, Larimer Co., Colo. has also been stocked, but success is questionable. b) Both the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Forest Service have expressed interest in helping to maintain this subspecies. In fact, in the proposed Cooperative Agreement the state DOW suggests the NPS is interested in maintaining populations of S. c. stomias in ALL of the streams within Rocky Mountain National Park. Some stocking has already begun. c) The state DOW has closed existing populations to fishing for 1975. d) Hatchery maintenance: Although 30,000 eggs were taken in summer, 1974, for artificial hatching, hatching success has been relatively poor. The DOW Work Plan (tentative) asks for $12,500 under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for collection of 50 brood fish and the subsequent rearing of their progeny. 5