Exposed rocks and aquatic plants are seen alongside the North Platte River at Treasure Island in southern Wyoming on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. The upper North Platte is one of several renowned trout streams affected by climate change, which has brought both abnormally dry, and sometimes unusually wet, conditions to the western U.S. (Mead Gruver/Associated Press)
September 7, 2021
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Prized trout streams shrink as heat, drought grip US West
The North Platte River in southern Wyoming has been so low in places lately that a toddler could easily wade across and thick mats of olive-green algae grow in the lazy current.