The 1988 Fires burned approximately half of Yellowstone National Park and provided a significant natural laboratory to review the effects of wildfire on aquatic ecosystems. Photo George Wuerthner
Most people assume that wildfire harms aquatic ecosystems and fisheries. But such assumptions are being challenged by new research.
This narrative misleadingly portrays mixed-intensity […]
Continue Reading →Twin Lakes on the Bridgeport Ranger District. Photo George Wuerthner
A recent final decision to keep cattle grazing out of vacant allotments on the Bridgeport District Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest is good news for the public and many endangered species. The district lies on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada just […]
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The Elk Ridge Complex grazing allotments were closed to livestock grazing in 2015. Now the BTNF wants to open them to cattle grazing. Photo George Wuerthner
The Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF) has recently issued an Environmental Assessment to restock four vacant grazing allotments in the Upper Green River drainage north […]
Continue Reading →Limit on rainbow and brook trout abolished (with exceptions)-
With the exception of some popular roadside rivers such as the Madison, Firehole, and lower Gibbon River, limits on the number of non-native trout are abolished in new Yellowstone Park fishing regulations. In addition, any lake trout caught in Yellowstone Lake are required to be killed.
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Continue Reading →Alvord cutthroat trout were a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the Alvord Basin of southeast Oregon that many believe went extinct in their pure form shortly after they were described. At the time they were discovered in the 1930’s, they were already on their way out due to hybridization with introduced rainbow trout. In […]
Continue Reading →High angling pressure and spread of rainbow trout the problem-
It’s not like fish have disappeared from the Beartooth Plateau or the streams of the nearby Absaroka Mountains, but the fisheries accessible without a long walk or pack trip are in decline.
The Clarks Fork […]
Continue Reading →2012 was banner year for number of lake trout removed from Yellowstone Lake-
Yellowstone cutthroat trout numbers are finally seen to be increasing in what once was the world’s greatest Yellowstone cutthroat trout fishery — Yellowstone Lake.
A herculean effort over the last 3 years has resulted in the removal 300,000 of the invasive and […]
Continue Reading →Idaho Water Board probably ends 10 year battle over Oneida Narrows dam-
Oneida Narrows is a scenic canyon on the Bear River in SE Idaho. It is already partially filled with a dam and reservoir, but its lower reaches are free, popular for recreation, and has a population of rare Bonneville Cutthroat Trout.
Over its […]
Continue Reading →Finding where the mackinaw spawn via transmitter should help zero in on them-
We recently ran a story on the need for more money for Yellowstone Park to get ahead in their battle against […]
Continue Reading →Tiny radio transmitters attached to lake trout may allow managers find and destroy their spawning beds-
The illegal or accidental introduction of lake trout to Yellowstone Lake has heavily damaged the native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Fishery in the Lake, and more importantly in the spawning streams where they used to provide food for many kinds […]
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