Author: Suzie Romig

A $1.2 million federal grant announced this week will be used to design a new fish exclusion feature to keep invasive and predatory northern pike from escaping the 110-foot-wide spillway at Lake Catamount south of Steamboat Springs . Joel Anderson, Catamount Metropolitan District manager for 30 years, said partner agencies have been discussing installing fish netting or an escapement prevention feature since 2016. The current funding will facilitate a design by the US Bureau of Reclamation in the 530-acre private lake. Funding was awarded to the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program which is a collaboration of local, state…