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Nonnative brook trout discovered in Soda Butte Creek in Yellowstone National Park; Native fish restoration project resumes to remove nonnatives - NPS
NEWS RELEASE Nonnative brook trout discovered in Soda Butte Creek in Yellowstone National Park; Native fish restoration project resumes to remove nonnatives Temporary creek closure Aug. 14-18 Park staff preparing to spray rotenone in tributaries of Soda Butte Creek NPS / Neal Herbert MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park, in coordination with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Custer Gallatin National Forest, will resume the Soda Butte Creek Native Fish Restoration Project near the Northeast Entrance Aug. 14-18 to remove newly discovered nonnative brook trout. The fish restoration project concluded in 2016 after nonnative brook trout were completely removed from the waterway due to successful treatments. If not removed this month, brook trout will quickly displace native Yellowstone cutthroat trout and eventually invade the entire Lamar River watershed, threatening the largest remaining riverine population of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in existence