It was also a highly-volatile river that frequently ran with little or no flow. Trout were not a native species of the Platte in Denver and points east, so you're correct-what's going on currently is not a "restoration". I would like to see the Platte segments below Hampden rival the stretch south of Mineral, but that would require many things, among them removing camping and trash-filled homeless encampments-which won't happen.