(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Dale Fonken inserts a microchip into a June sucker caught in Red Butte Reservoir on Sept. 15, 2020. State officials maintain a population of the endangered fish in the reservoir in Red Butte Canyon outside Salt Lake City. Every September biologists relocate several hundred to the sucker's native Utah Lake
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.