Swimming Upstream
9 x 28 inches
Note from the Artist:
"The story of this rare and native cutthroat trout is fascinating! Paiute Cutthroat were historically native only to a small section of the Silver King Creek in the Sierra Nevada in California. They had been wiped out of all of their native waters by a combination of overfishing, habitat degradation, and competition / hybridization with other introduced trout species by their Endangered status listing in 1966 - one of the first listed! Luckily for the Paiute trout, a few had been carried in buckets upstream above a natural barrier in 1912 by Basque shepherds. They would be extinct today if these shepherds had not inadvertently saved them in order to have a source of fresh fish in the Summer while grazing their flocks. Through a massive, long and somewhat controversial habitat restoration process, the Paiute trout were reintroduced back into their native waters in 2019."
Reductive Linocut Relief
30
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Monique Wales
