HELENA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries staff have noticed a declining number of bull trout spawning nests in western Montana. Trends show the spawning nests, or redds, have ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In response to record-low bull trout spawning nests in the South Fork of the Flathead River and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A couple of conservation groups are asking a federal court to stop a Glacier National Park plan ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission decided to approve four additional protections for bull trout in the Hungry Horse Reservoir and the South Fork of the Flathead River. The new ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission recently approved changes it says will add protections for bull trout in northwest Montana as officials report seeing record low numbers of spawning nests, ...

Gunsight Lake in Glacier National Park. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan) A couple of conservation groups are asking a federal court to stop a Glacier National Park plan to put endangered bull trout ...

Ladd Knotek is disturbed by the lack of attention being paid to the many western Montana streams where bull trout populations are struggling to survive. The fisheries biologist with Montana Fish, ...

MISSOULA -- Low flows and stream blockages may have contributed to some lower-than-usual spawning results in the annual northwest Montana bull trout survey this fall. “In some streams, our annual ...

Western Montana is one of the last refuges for bull trout, a species that is clinging on to a tiny percentage of its historic range and trying to survive in the face of warming waters, habitat loss, ...

History records that bull trout once played an important role in sustaining Indigenous peoples in southwestern Montana. Bull trout were once abundant in the Clark Fork River and Silver Bow Creek, ...

Competition from lake trout in Montana waters continues to cut into the population of native fish, but experts are optimistic that ongoing efforts will manage and potentially reverse the decline. Lake ...

The groups say the Bitterroot National Forest management plan amendments would allow road building harmful to protected species. Environmentalists went to federal court Tuesday in hopes of stopping ...