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The Utah Cutthroat Slam has raised over $100,000 in funding, per a press launch from the Utah Division of Wildlife Sources (DWR). The Cutthroat Slam is a fishing problem launched in 2016 that requires anglers to catch all 4 subspecies of cutthroat trout of their native drainage all through Utah. That features the Yellowstone cutthroat in northwestern Utah, the Colorado River cutthroat, the Bonneville cutthroat, and the Bear Lake/Bear River cutthroat.
Anglers pay a $20 registration price and obtain a certificates and coin as soon as they end the Slam. That price goes in direction of conservation initiatives geared particularly to cutthroat trout.
“After we launched this system in 2016, the primary objective was to coach the general public about Utah’s solely native trout and the historic ranges they inhabited,” Utah Cutthroat Slam Program Director for Utah Trout Limitless Brett Prettyman stated. “The opposite focus was offering anglers a possibility to discover new fisheries with household and associates by offering a problem that might take them locations they probably by no means thought-about. We thought it might additionally show a solution to elevate some more money for cutthroat conservation work. Reaching this milestone of $100,000 raised is really icing on the cake for us.”
Along with elevating $100,000 for conservation funding, the Slam has been accomplished 1,464 occasions since 2016.
“We’re so grateful to the various anglers who take part and assist fund cutthroat trout restoration in Utah,” DWR Sportfish Coordinator Trina Hedrick stated. “These initiatives are essential in serving to restore our native cutthroat trout all through the state and wouldn’t be attainable with out this funding. We additionally respect our companions, Utah Trout Limitless, and others concerned in these vital efforts.”
Because the Slam’s inception in 2016, it has funded 25 cutthroat conservation initiatives. 16 of these have been accomplished up to now. A number of the funding went to assist restore habitat on the Decrease Beaver River in south-central Utah, flood mitigation and habitat restoration on Clear Creek close to Richfield, and a telemetry challenge that checked out migration patterns of Bonneville cutthroat in Chalk Creek.
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