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Call of the Mild: How are local wildlife coping with the unusual winter? - Mountain Journal

Call of the Mild :  With regional snowpack at record lows and average temperatures well above normal, h ow are local wildlife coping with the unusual winter?  

Yellowstone National Park seeks public comment on a native fish conservation environmental assessment - NPS

  Yellowstone National Park seeks public comment on a native fish conservation environmental assessment News Release Date:  July 26, 2023 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park asks the public for comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) that analyzes a proposal by Custer Gallatin National Forest and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks about native fish conservation. In 2022, Custer Gallatin National Forest along with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks issued an EA proposing to remove nonnative rainbow trout and hybridized cutthroat trout from the Buffalo Creek drainage, just north of Yellowstone in the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness of Custer Gallatin National Forest. After removal, they plan to reintroduce native Yellowstone cutthroat trout to the drainage. Yellowstone's EA analyzes the 2022 proposal’s site-specific impacts to Yellowstone. Both agencies plan to use the Slough Creek area in the northeastern part of Yellowstone

At Yellowstone’s boundary, Two Ocean Pass is a place where fish can swim over Continental Divide - idahocapitalsun.com

  At Yellowstone’s boundary, Two Ocean Pass is a place where fish can swim over Continental Divide

Warning from Yellowstone's Lead Fisheries Biologist about Smallmouth Bass Found in Gardner River, North of Yellowstone

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Statement from Yellowstone National Park Lead Fisheries Biologist Todd Koel about Montana FWP’s announcement of the smallmouth bass found in the Gardner River, north of Yellowstone National Park                     Smallmouth bass                         USFWS / Eric Engbretson News Release Date:  March 9, 2022 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 “Smallmouth bass are an invasive predatory species that will threaten our wild and native trout populations if they become established in the upper Yellowstone River. Since anglers are highly effective at suppressing invasive fish in waters where they coexist with native species such as cutthroat trout, they will be required to kill and report any smallmouth bass caught in Yellowstone National Park when the fishing season opens Memorial Day weekend. Additionally, Yellowstone National Park and USGS biologists will be sampling the Gardner and Yellowstone rivers, upstream of where the invasive smallmouth bass was caught. Over the next few

Yellowstone to hold virtual meeting on park fish restoration work [public invited -- Tues, May 25] - postregister.com

Yellowstone to hold virtual meeting on park fish restoration work