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| | Native Trout Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Bonneville cutthroat trout, whose coloration is less vivid compared to other cutthroat species and has large, more evenly distributed spots, was historically found in the Bonneville Basin, including suitable habitat within the Basin portions of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. |
 | | As recently as 30 years ago, scientists believed pure strains of Bonneville cutthroat trout were extinct due to over-harvest, water diversions, hybridization, habitat degradation from mining, logging, grazing and competition with brook and brown trout. |
 | | Bonneville cutthroat trout currently face threats from water diversions, habitat damage from livestock grazing and competition from non-native trout species, including continued stocking of nonnatives. |
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