Bull trout were once abundant in the upper Clark Fork River but historic mining and smelting activities upstream affected ...

This is a story about wilderness pests. It is told as a warning to others. I remember this disturbing episode like it was ...

Michael Garrity writes, We have millions of cattle in Montana, but there are very few bull trout left, especially in their historic spawning areas of the Upper Clark Fork River.

Historically, it was home to an abundance of native fish, including the threatened bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout. In the early 1900s, lake trout were introduced, likely by railroad workers.

A conservationist who has worked protecting bull trout says Glacier National Park is “playing God” with Gunsight Lake, a remote lake at the head of the St. Mary River Valley.

A bull trout caught in Idaho. (U.S. Forest Service image from Wikipedia via Courthouse News) SEATTLE (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday took up Montana conservation groups' six-year battle with ...

And then last year, 2023, we ended up catching 185 bull trout in the season." Things are off to a great start this year, too, with 203 fish caught as of August.

In 1998, bull trout were labeled as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Burns Paiute Tribe began addressing this issue a decade ago by targeting the ...

Bull trout spawning nests, or redds, have declined at almost half of the long-term monitoring sites in western Montana. Fish, Wildlife & Parks biologists say the decline is largely due to warming ...

Bull trout have populated the Klamath Basin for thousands of years. But, they’ve nearly been wiped out by competition from non-native fish. The 30-year recovery of this trout is proving to be a ...

Bull trout are one of the largest native salmonoid species in North America. They are also one of the most imperiled. The species is listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, ...