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Backcrossing to the Future Ben Ikenson January 19, 2021 In the summer of 2018, a pair of fish biologists and a pair of horse packers embarked on an arduous 13-hour trek through a remote section of the 3.3 million-acre Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico, not far from the Arizona border. “We rode mules the first five or so miles,” recalls Jill Wick, who managed the native fish program for the New Mexican Department of Game and Fish, “but had to continue on foot for the las...