The government has been engaged in a 20 year effort to rescue a species of trout, the Greenback Cutthroat.
As it turns out, there's another trout with a similar name and appearance, the Colorado River Cutthroat. It's not endangered. It's even... kind of common. But it looks almost exactly the same as the Greenback.
So the biologists mixed them up. For years.
They stocked ecological niches
With lots of the wrong kind of fishes.
I don't want to know what it cost,
Or just how much money was lost.
By the way, if they are so similar, do we really need both varieties? Couldn't we save lots of greenbacks by letting the Greenbacks swim their way into natural history?
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