CAN PLANTING TROUT HURT OUR ENVIRONMENT?

SACRAMENTO, CA--The Center For Biological Diversity, an environmental group, has stopped California Fish and Game Department from planting trout in California's lakes.

Several lake managers said that they would still plant trout in their lakes, which could cause them a lawsuit by this environmental group.

Because of the planted trout, frogs and pollywogs are becoming extinct in California, according to the environmentalist, and this lawsuit would save them. But fishermen claimed that they have not seen any evidence of frogs or pollywogs in any trout's stomach.

In one lake in the high Sierras, trout were taken out to protect the frogs. A year later, the frogs in the lake died--killed by "chitrid fungus," according to Sierra Nevada Research Laboratory.

What's next: "A two year environmental study--before deer hunting can continue--on how deer hunting effects the Sierra Nevada's forest?