About this Event
The Desert Trout takes you into Nevada’s remote Basin and Range, where one of the West’s most iconic native fish is struggling to survive. Once widespread, the Lahontan cutthroat trout now persists in fragmented populations, with only 5 of 71 considered resilient by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The film examines the primary driver behind these declines: livestock grazing on public lands. Damaged streambanks, rising water temperatures, sedimentation, and nutrient pollution have degraded critical spawning habitat across hundreds of miles of occupied streams.
The film also offers a glimpse of what recovery looks like. At the Marys River Exclosure, where cattle have been removed from Bureau of Land Management lands, stream systems are healing and native wildlife is returning.
Right now, the Bureau of Land Management is reevaluating grazing across dozens of allotments overlapping trout habitat. Proposed changes emphasize infrastructure and flexibility for grazing operations, rather than reducing livestock pressure in sensitive streams.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with the filmmaker and Western Watersheds Project’s Nevada and California Directors to learn what is at stake and how you can take action to protect these fragile ecosystems.
A food truck will be on-site!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
South Lake Brewing Company, 1920 Lake Tahoe Boulevard, South Lake Tahoe, United States
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