From winter-deep pools, Rio Grande cutthroat trout call
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout was the first trucha documented in the New World in 1541.
Carson Springer admires a Rio Grande cutthroat trout before releasing it in the Carson National Forest.
A chronicler on the Coronado Entrada noted Rio Grande cutthroat trout swimming near Pecos Pueblo.
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout was officially described for science by Charles Girard, a French medical doctor and naturalist who was invited to work at the Smithsonian in the 1850s.
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout are yellow, olive green, carmine and black colored.
