Restoring Paiute Trout on the Silver King Creek
The Silver King Creek is in the Eastern Sierra's Carson-Iceberg Wilderness of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and it is a tributary of the East Carson River of the Lahontan Desert Basin. The Paiute Trout is a very rare species that is native to the Silver King Creek. They are distinguished by a lack of spots and by a purplish iridescent color that is very distinctive. But, they have been all but become extinct as a result of the competition from the rainbow and the golden trout.