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“Out of the ashes: Crews work to improve habitat for Gila trout”
by Hannah Grover, NM Political Report
May 6, 2024

The Gila/Rio Grande chapter of Trout Unlimited is leading a public-private partnership to restore Little Turkey Creek in Sierra County near Winston as part of a broader effort to improve habitat in the Willow Creek watershed in the Gila Wilderness that was impacted by the Whitewater-Baldy Fire of 2012. After the fire, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identified the watershed as a potential place where Gila trout could be restored because fire-created debris and sediment had knocked out populations there of both the trout and, importantly, its predators.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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