MISSOULA — In what sounds as tangled as a spilled tackle box, a free punch-card program has allowed a federally threatened fish species to remain legally catchable for Montana anglers. “In most waters ...
Roman Battaglia / JPR News At a small dam on Sun Creek made out of corrugated vinyl sheeting, National Park Service fish biologist Dave Hering shuts off water leading into a metal box the size of a ...
Ray Vinkey joked that state fisheries biologist Caleb Uerling provides an Uber service for bull trout. In reality, Uerling, an employee of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, does occasionally transport ...
Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and ...
High up in the mountains of Central Washington, in cool, clear headwaters, you might be lucky to find the most elusive of fish: the bull trout. Federally listed as a threatened species under the ...