Agency Rejects Appeal of Plan to Poison Stream
From Times Wire Reports
The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday rejected environmentalists’ appeal of a plan to poison a stream south of Lake Tahoe to aid what wildlife officials call “the rarest trout in America.”
Unless opponents sue, the decision frees the California Department of Fish and Game to seek a permit to clear nonnative fish from 11 miles of Silver King Creek next month using rotenone.
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