It’s still a tenuous existence for Gila trout. Even thought they were downlisted from “endangered” to “threatened” a couple years ago, there are still so few populations that fish need to be helicoptered out to avoided the ash flows resulting from wildfire.

A couple years ago, fish from the Whiskey Creek lineage were quickly transported to another creek under threat of wildfire.  Hopefully, a sustainable replicate population of the Whiskey Creek fish can be established, or that population may be lost.