In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a notice of the not warranted finding on the petition to list the Rio Grande cutthroat trout. After completing a thorough review and consulting with scientists, state agencies, species experts … Continued
In September, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) stocked 480 Trojan male or YY brook trout into Bobtail and Steelman creeks in an effort to restore native cutthroat populations in the headwaters of the Williams Fork River. In 2010, an alarming … Continued
The Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex in Gardnerville, Nev., began stocking 100,000 catchable, Lahontan cutthroat trout into Lake Tahoe June 1 and will continue stocking throughout the summer as conditions allow. The stocking is part of a multi-agency and tribal … Continued
In February 2022, an angler caught a smallmouth bass while fishing on the Gardner River at its confluence with the Yellowstone River, just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Smallmouth bass are not native to the Yellowstone River Watershed. An established … Continued
The annual removal of nonnative lake trout from Yellowstone Lake recently concluded, with results suggesting a declining population of the problematic fish. Lake trout are removed in an effort to preserve the native cutthroat trout population, the largest remaining concentration … Continued