SD Earth haters introducing invasive species into Black Hills streams

South Dakota's Earth hating congressional delegation obstructs attempts by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to streamline the agency as it weans support from a hatchery notorious for introducing invasive species to Black Hills watersheds and into the waters of the United States. And with the Trump Organization continuing to support the release of hybrid and non-native trout by South Dakota's Department of Game, Fish & Plunder when native species are being threatened in the Missouri River basin rainbow trout were released into Lake Sharpe.

Larry Rhoden and his other white meat supporters purport to be small-government conservatives but they're really just helping themselves instead of finding a way for communities to finance rearing for private ponds and begging the feds for more moral hazard money while pretending to be self-reliant.

Earth haters like Rhoden believe America is only great when Republican presidents are in power and revere an executive who is gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, promising to clearcut the Black Hills National Forest, pledging to mine public lands sacred to Indigenous peoples, erasing the workforce and putting septic systems in sensitive habitats all in the name of making white America great again. 

Finescale dace was the only fish identified in Black Hills streams by the Custer Expedition in 1874 but the creek chub and white sucker are also native. Brown trout are not native to the Missouri River either but recently, GF&P fisheries staffers electrofished Spearditch Creek.

To do this, a net was placed in a shallow area of the creek to prevent fish from escaping downstream. The team starts 100 yards downstream and walks upstream. Every fish is netted and a fin is clipped so that in the future, people know that it had previously been caught and migrated to other areas of the study zone. All the fish in the first 2 transplants he participated in recently swam away on their own. A sampling of Rapid Creek fish later this summer will help determine how many fish have survived. [GF&P transplanting brown trout from Spearfish to Rapid Creek]