Is it alarming to hear about things like the governments trout snafu?

Question

In Colorado, a 20-year effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout has floundered because the wrong fish were being stocked in the waterways. A 3-year study by the University of Colorado revealed the problem recently.

Is there hope for the greenback cuttthroat trout and our endangered species when the government mismanages our resources in this fashion?

Answer 1

lol...you ARE kidding with this ....right???

Answer 2

Most are Idiots. I bet the streams are poluted / full of trash. Its going to be a slow death for all endanger species. Including The ones that aren't edangered yet. Sorry about being so negitive. I see the world going to S^)~ every day. Global warming will end it all.

Happy Caving Carroll

Answer 3

Not necessarily.  Remember the government paid bounties to have predators removed from the US.  Recommended planting species that are now taking over the country side.  Scary that it took that long to figure it out!!!

If the greenbrook interbred with the trout they were stocking it may be impossible to seperate the species and they may have created a new one.

Answer 4

People make mistakes.  You do too.  It's too bad but that's what happens.

They just mistakenly flew a bunch of nuclear warheads across the US.  

They made a mistake grinding the mirrors of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The American people made the same gigantic mistake twice in the past seven years.  

The last one is the only one I find truly alarming.  The others are just life.

Answer 5

Which mistake?  The fish was declared extinct in 1937 so that is probably the first mistake.  It turned up again in the 1950's but took till 1978 to put it ion the endangered species list.  Those found in the 50's were used as brood stock in state and federal fish hatcheries so this is where I get a bit defensive of the government.  People work in fish hatcheries, people just like you and I.  So how could the only remaining fish of a species get mixed up with an existing species?  This was not the states plan or the fed's.  They were going to breed them and release them.  Someone, somewhere put a different species of trout in with them and the dna indicates that became the dominant species released.  Who did that?  Maybe your next door neighbor or mine.  Let's not blame the government for everything without recognizing it is the single biggest employer in this country and it is the people in it's employ that make most of the mistakes.  I am not terribly alarmed about fish mistakes when we have wars going on.

After all, we all thought this creature was extinct from 1937 to sometime in the 50's and didn't especially miss it.  How terrible is it if he goes extinct again?

Answer 6

I read about this tyhis morning

It's very alarming, but not surprising to me (I work for the Federal Government).  It's a perfect example of why people should not take the attitude that "we should leave everything to the government"