Rainbow Trout are already established in Slough Creek and the Lamar River. Correct? If so, the proposed USFS and MFWP project is jousting at windmills.
I am very skeptical anytime it is proposed that we begin disrupting habitat in order to save habitat, and that poisons, helicopters, dynamite (which some TU chapters employ to remove beaver dams !?!) and various technological answers will set things right. We've been told all the decades of my life (and probably long before that) that God Technology will provide answers for the destruction an overpopulation of humans is causing. Still waiting.
So, leave Buffalo Creek alone. Maybe in the short term, some anglers don't see that as the "perfect" solution. But trust Nature and give her time to sort it out. That should be good enough for now. And in the long term, it may in retrospect prove to have been the perfect approach. And once again, Rainbow Trout are already in Lamar Creek. Correct?JD