“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
First introduced in Missouri’s cold-water streams in the 1880s, the Rainbow Trout is by far the most numerous trout found here. Some of those original strains of trout continue to exist to this day.