This is the original Greenback Cutthroat Trout that was brought back from the brink of extinction. Conservation stopped in 2007 after DNA reveled the fish they had been stocking for decades was not native to the South Platte drainage. The non-genetically pure or hybrid was across between two types of native CO cutts, Green and Blue) have been and will continue to be evicted from their homes to make room for the "genetically pure" Bear Creek Greenback Trout, or purple lineage. They have had their prestigious name of "Greenbacks" striped from them and labeled hybrids. Read the fascinating but complicated history of the Greenback and Colorado River Cutthroat Trout and Colorado Park and Wildlife's research and conservation plans.
This is the original Greenback Cutthroat Trout that was brought back from the brink of extinction. Conservation stopped in 2007 after DNA reveled the fish they had been stocking for decades was not native to the South Platte drainage. The non-genetically pure or hybrid was across between two types of native CO cutts, Green and Blue) have been and will continue to be evicted from their homes to make room for the "genetically pure" Bear Creek Greenback Trout, or purple lineage. They have had their prestigious name of "Greenbacks" striped from them and labeled hybrids. Read the fascinating but complicated history of the Greenback and Colorado River Cutthroat Trout and Colorado Park and Wildlife's research and conservation plans. 
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