From The Pueblo Chieftain (Chris Woodka):
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will help fund two projects in the Fountain Creek watershed designed to restore fish habitat. Federal grants of $50,000 each were awarded to the Bear Creek sediment mitigation project and the fish passage project at Clear Springs Ranch on Fountain Creek. The Bear Creek project, which totals $185,000, also is seeking a $100,000 grant from the Colorado Water Conservation Board to improve a 4-mile stretch of creek west of Colorado Springs. Bear Creek is home to the only known native population of greenback cutthroat trout in Colorado. The fish were discovered in 2012 and the project seeks to protect the creek from heavy recreation use alongside the creek.
The $640,000 project at Clear Springs Ranch is being led by Colorado Springs Utilities to help the Arkansas darter, a native plains fish, swim upstream to spawn.
One other project in Colorado was given a $50,000 grant that will assist in a $512,000 project in Northwestern Colorado to improve habitat and create a fish passage for cutthroat trout on Milk Creek.
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