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Hyman's victory on a platform of activism mirrored the success of PUCC's rainbow coalition of student organizations. Events this year seem to indicate that PUCC is not a fringe group of radicals, as its detractors claim, but a broad-based coalition whose agenda has appeal across the College...
...pilgrimage to Colorado's and Montana's world-renowned wild-trout streams this fishing season and come away skunked. The cause: the tail-blackening "whirling disease," a mysterious and usually fatal ailment that is spreading rapidly through prized trout populations of the Rocky Mountain West. In Colorado, where the rainbow is the mainstay of a $1 billion-a-year game-fishing industry, the disease has infected hatcheries, devastated trout on a prime stretch of the Colorado River and spilled into 13 of 15 major river drainages. On one 55-mile stretch of Montana's famous Madison River, an estimated half...
...only after they have been ingested by inch-long Tubifex worms in the mud that the parasites become dangerous. In the worm's gut, the protozoan takes a new form: grappling-hook-shaped spore cases that when released from the worm, can invade the gills and skin of tiny rainbow fry. The infection eats away at the cartilage of young trout, leaving them deformed, discolored and often spinning frantically in small circles until they die. Hence the name whirling disease...
Scientists are desperately searching for solutions. They are perfecting DNA tests that will allow faster identification of the parasite and are searching for a trout species that is immune to the disease and could provide a substitute for the rainbow. Meanwhile, the Montana-based Whirling Disease Foundation, which is helping to coordinate the fight, has landed a big-name supporter in TV mogul (and part-time Montanan) Ted Turner. For streams like the Colorado and the Madison, where the wild-rainbow population is in free fall, the hope is that it may not be too late...
RICHARD WOODBURY, TIME's Denver bureau chief, flew to Bozeman, Montana, last week to report on the mysterious parasite that is killing off the Rocky Mountain West's famous wild rainbow trout. In the past two years, Woodbury has ranged all over the Rockies--from New Mexico to Wyoming--documenting life in what is now called the New West but which Woodbury remembers less grandly from reporting a 1980 cover story about the region's last big boom. "The difference now is that every facet of the growth explosion is much larger," he says. "The mountain states are choking...