Summit Lake in remote northwest Nevada is home to the only self-sustaining, robust, lake population of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, North America’s largest freshwater native trout species.
Summit Lake in remote northwest Nevada is home to the only self-sustaining, robust, lake population of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, North America’s largest freshwater native trout species.
Only five of 71 populations of cutthroat trout are considered resilient. Two of the five are managed by the Pyramid Lake and Summit Lake Paiute tribes.