The great Flathead fish fiasco

Everything you wanted to know about the debate over how to handle Flathead Lake's invasive lake trout. 

LINK (via: The Missoula Independent)

Groups sue USFWS over bull trout recovery plan

Two Montana environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for again failing to follow Endangered Species Act requirements, this time as they relate to bull trout.

LINK (via:The Bozeman Daily Chronicle)

CONFLUENTUS - Fly Fishing

Comments sought on removing Glacier National Park lake trout

Photo: USFWS Mountain Prairie

Glacier National Park is home to approximately one-third of the nation’s bull trout population that lives in natural, undammed lake systems.

That gives the park a critical role in regional bull trout recovery and long-term conservation, according to Glacier management assistant Denise Germann.

To that end, proposals to continue lake trout suppression on Quartz Lake and start lake trout removal on Logging Lake are now available for public review and comment.

LINK (via: The Missoulian)

Comments on the environmental assessment are due Jan. 22.

August 2013 SOTM Entry: BC Bull

Zach Southgate with a healthy bull trout.

B.C. urged to block planned run-of-river project

Photo: Craig Pettitt

An Alberta company is proposing to build a run-of-river power facility in a globally significant interior temperate rainforest near Revelstoke renowned for its grizzly bears, ancient trees and rich biodiversity including rare lichens and at-risk bull trout.

Environmentalists fought logging plans in the upper Incomappleux River several years ago and are now asking the B.C. government to stop TransAlta’s hydro proposal in its tracks and declare the area a park to complement adjoining Glacier National Park to the north.

LINK (via: The Calgary Herald)