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    Little Kern Golden Trout

    Mar 31, 2022 3 minutes
    BY ANDRIA GREENE

    CALIFORNIA’S LITTLE KERN golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei) occupy a single watershed in the world—the Little Kern River and its tributaries, which flow through the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range, and are hugged by protected land of Sequoia National Park and Forest.

    Some golden trout populations are still threatened by non-native rainbow trout introduced in the 1930s. Hybridization was the primary factor in Little Kern goldens being listed as threatened

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