Bull Trout by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 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 clearcut some of Montana’s few remaining, most pristine, bull trout watersheds that flow out of […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Dead fish from a creek earlier this summer when temperatures in Montana hit triple digits. (Photo by Larry Campbelli). Anyone who drives around the state of Montana right now can see one unassailable truth: our state’ renowned rivers and the prized fish which inhabit them are in big trouble. From east to west, north to […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Photo by US FWS The Clark Fork River is federally-designated “critical habitat” for bull trout, a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act since 1999. The Upper Clark Fork is also part of the nation’s largest Superfund site, having suffered severe pollution from flushing a century of toxic mining and smelting waste downstream. Hundreds of […] The post Alliance for the Wild Rockies files lawsuit to prevent dewatering bull trout critical habitat in the Clark Fork River ...| Alliance For The Wild Rockies