Outside the museum building a quarter-mile trail follows a forest stream lines with aspens and ponderosa pines.

Habitat: boulder- strewn torrents, forest streams, road side canals.

It can be found in small forest streams and backwaters, where it eats algae, detritus and small invertebrates.

Its lives in small forest streams and in spring-fed alpine streams.

The species has been recorded in grassy habitat near forest streams at up to 2550 meters in elevation.