Anglers in northern Colorado are hoping some tiny fish will mean the return of a popular catch at State Forest State Park. About 600 golden trout have been stocked into two high-elevation, backcountry lakes, in the park with the hopes that theyâll grow to catchable size in a few years.
Golden trout are the state fish of California and native to the Upper Kern River drainage near Mt. Whitney and Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central California. They were believed extinct by the mid-20th century. The species was originally described by ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1892. History buffs will know that Jordan was the first Chancellor of Stanford University. After the golden trout was recovered in California, it was bred in hatcheries and was stocked in lakes within the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah beginning in the 1970s.
James P. ‘Jim’ O’Leary
Saturday, January 30, 2021
James P. “Jim” O’Leary, 87, passed away due to natural causes on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, at the Care and Comfort Home in Havre. A Rosary will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, with funeral services beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, all at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church with Father Dan Wathen officiating. Jim’s family has suggested that memorial donations be made in his memory to St. Jude Catholic School or St. Jude Catholic Church, PO Box 407, Havre, Montana, 59501. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Jim’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at www. hollandbonine.com.