The snow along the mountains of Nevada’s Great Basin trickle down when the spring turns into summer. This produces a flurry of wildlife and natural resources in our area ponds, rivers, and lakes. … Along the majestic Truckee River, fishermen would collect thousands of trout from the late 1800’s to the 1900’s. Eventually, this would cause the near extinction of our state’s native species, the Lahontan cutthroat trout.