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The Devil’s Hole Pupfish

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The Devil's Hole Dam

Ranchers and conservationists have been fighting over water at devil's hole for decades. In the 19 nineties, the pupfish population mysteriously started to dwindle. There were fewer than a hundred pup fish every year. A flash flood knocked over a stack of fish traps that scientists had left next to the water. The traps accidentally killed nearly a third of the total population.

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