Heat wave spells early trouble for Montana trout

River levels are dropping rapidly as summer temperatures continue to climb, and both trends spell trouble for Montana’s trout. As Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks prepares for fishing closures, anglers can do some things to help fish out.

LINK (via: Montana On The Ground)

No surprise that we just had the hottest spring ever.

Here in the Pacific Northwest the Olympic Peninsula is facing a summer without snowmelt.

1930 Documentary: Raising Trout for Montana Anglers

A lucky find in a garage sale in Spokane led to the recovery of fishing-related documentary films made by Montana's fish and wildlife agency in the 1920s.

LINK (via: The Spokesman Review)

Montana from Above

Some jaw dropping aerial footage from Big Sky country.

April 2014 SOTM Entry: MT. Brown

Cole Hoefle showcases a feesh he met earlier this month.  Whoa.

Montana Water Plan

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation has launched an initiative to update the state's water plan.

In this feature interview with Edward O'Brien, Michael Downey - the supervisor of the Water Planning Section in the DNRC's Water Resources Division - explains some of the initiative's fundamental goals, starting with Montana's Water Plan itself.

via: Montana Public Radio

The Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States

Though free of large impoundments such as those on the Missouri, the Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States, as it is often described. Diversion dams block the river at six sites between Billings and Sidney. Like 12-Mile Dam on the Tongue, the Yellowstone’s Huntley, Waco-Custer, Rancher’s Ditch, Yellowstone, Cartersville, and Intake diversion dams were built decades ago to provide water for crop irrigation.

LINK (via: Montana Outdoors)

Those diversion dams are responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of fish annually who move in the diversion canals along with the water. Now two giant fish screens have been installed which will help save fish on the Yellowstone.

LINK (via: The Billings Gazette)