FISH LACK FOOD
So many ranchers have grazed cows in the lofty ' pastures of the Rocky Mountains that the fish in Colorado streams are threatened by a food, shortage, according to Arthur H. Carhart, staff naturalist for the State Game Department. "For generations great herds of cattle have been grazed in the mountains," he said. "As a result the grass in most places "becomes so short that every rain washes tons of silt into the mountain streams. That kills off the plants and moss "on which the trout feed." {
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 23
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89FISH LACK FOOD Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 131, 30 November 1939, Page 23
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