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Colorado baseball team, students and the feds team up to save an endangered fish

WBUR

Published July 8, 2026 at 11:03 AM CDT

A Colorado River razorback sucker fish is shown swimming in a tank at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Lakewood, Colo. (Dan Elliott/AP)

The razorback sucker has been swimming in the Colorado River for an estimated 5 million years before humans nearly fished them out of existence.

Now high schoolers are teaming up with a local baseball team and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to save this beloved fish.

Colorado Public Radio’s Stina Seig reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.