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1982 UPDATE <br />The Grand Junction office of the Colorado Divi- discovered populations, however, are limited to <br />sion of Wildlife initiated an ambitious program in localized sections of small headwater streams. <br />1980 to determine the status of the native cutthroat The Colorado River cutthroat trout has been <br />trout. Many remote headwater streams and lakes were stocked into Timber Lake, Rocky Mountain National <br />surveyed in 1980, 1981, and 1982, in an attempt to Park to re-establish the native trout to the Colo- <br />find populations of S. c. pleuriticus. Although most rado River drainage of the Park, Successful <br />of the effort found only brook trout or hybrid popu- reproduction was noted in 1982. <br />lations, 12 new populations of pure or virtually pure <br />S. c. pleuriticus were located. These newly <br />31