Plan aims to restore native trout to protected creek east of Yellowstone

Efforts to restore native Yellowstone cutthroat trout have made headlines in recent years, with a focus on reducing invasive lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park.

But a new front in the war against non-native trout could be developing just east of the park next year, if the Wyoming Game and Fish Department moves forward with a plan to create a safe harbor for Yellowstone cutthroats in the Shoshone National Forest.

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Yellowstone Cutthroat Transmitters

Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologists are implanting radio transmitters in Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Greybull River to understand more about migration patterns and how natural and man-made barriers affect the species

Yellowstone Cutthroat

From Into the Wind Outdoors

Cutthroat trout relocated to Big Horn Mountains

The scene could have been in a period film -- a handful of men wrapping rope around a mule to secure metal tanks to the saddle.

The mule was neighing. Water nearby was rushing. There was no motorized traffic for miles.

The mule then marched up a steep canyon, transporting the precious cargo.

Inside the 10-gallon metal tanks were water, ice and Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

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Yellowstone cutthroat returned to Clarks Fork system

The flatbed truck with a green aquatics tank arrived at the trailhead at 9 a.m., carrying 900 genetically pure Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

Bucket by bucket, technicians with Wyoming Game and Fish carried the trout to the banks of Dead Indian Creek, a fast-running tributary that feeds the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River.

Monday"s release marks an ongoing effort by state biologists to restore Yellowstone cutthroat to native waters across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, including Dead Indian Creek.

LINK (Via: The Billings Gazette)

According to the biologists “This stocking will help provide immediate angler opportunities.”