The Dixie National Forest is poised to wipe out a sport fishery on two streams to restore native trout to parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
In coordination with Utah wildlife officials, the forest is looking to return populations of Bonneville cutthroat trout, along with native minnows and suckers, to select reaches of the East Fork of the Sevier River, which will require killing all the fish, including beloved rainbow and brown trout. Upper Kanab and Blubber creeks, just west of Bryce Canyon National Park, will be closed for several days next month while biologists apply the fish-killing poison rotenone.