Wildlife officials had to rescue, relocate brook trout after Bottomley Properties cleared hundreds of acres of mountain forest for grazing.

By Lisa Sorg

ALLEGHANY COUNTY, N.C.—One of the most prominent cattle farmers in North Carolina has reached a financial settlement with the state Department of Environmental Quality over allegations that its grazing operations damaged more than three miles of mountain streams and prompted state wildlife officials to conduct an emergency rescue of a fragile species of brook trout from the waterways.

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