On Sep 5, 9:24 pm, wrote:

And any ideas who paid for this screw-up?

Well, in perusing some of the articles, I found that the original
Greenback Trout Recovery Program was developed in 1977 by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the U.S.
Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management. Who actually paid for the work over the subsequent 20-30
years? Well, it looks like.... you did! And I did- although
indirectly during the program's early years, since I was not yet a
taxpayer :-)

Bill