The sheriff was the first to see that a 14-mile section of the North Platte, that high-plains haven for rainbow and brown trout, was strangling. The killer was a spill of more than 90,000 gallons of gasoline that escaped from a ruptured pipeline and bubbled nine miles down a dusty arroyo into the river. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.18/download-entire-issue

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On the North Platte: a fish kill to end all fish kills

by Jim Scott, High Country News
September 28, 1987

<h1>On the North Platte: a fish kill to end all fish kills</h1> <p class="byline">by Jim Scott, High Country News <br />September 28, 1987</p> <p>The sheriff was the first to see that a 14-mile section of the North Platte, that high-plains haven for rainbow and brown trout, was strangling. The killer was a spill of more than 90,000 gallons of gasoline that escaped from a ruptured pipeline and bubbled nine miles down a dusty arroyo into the river. Download entire issue to view this article: <a class="external-link" href="download-entire-issue">http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.18/download-entire-issue</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.hcn.org/issues/19-18/on-the-north-platte-a-fish-kill-to-end-all-fish-kills/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.hcn.org&quot;&gt;High Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.hcn.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=106365&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.hcn.org/issues/19-18/on-the-north-platte-a-fish-kill-to-end-all-fish-kills/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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