Long before there were cattle in Montana the Salish people found spawning bull trout so large and plentiful in the clear ...

Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and ...

WASHINGTON -- A recovery plan being finalized this week would sharply reduce the amount of federally designated critical habitat for the threatened bull trout in three Western states and eliminate ...

“Without habitat standards to measure temperature, sediment and other parameters vital to bull trout survival and recovery, the agency isn’t able to determine whether habitat is being improved or ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two Montana conservation groups have filed a lawsuit demanding the Bush administration restore cutbacks in critical habitat for the bull trout, a threatened species whose demands for ...

“Considerable challenges remain to recover the bull trout,” the Fish and Wildlife Service said in a new assessment. The bull trout and its sprawling Western habitat still require Endangered Species ...

HELENA (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it has settled a lawsuit filed by conservation groups by agreeing to determine which habitat is critical for the threatened bull ...

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Two Montana environmental groups are suing ...

MISSOULA, Mont.-- A U.S. Fish and Wildlife plan that would more than quadruple habitat protection for bull trout in the West is up for public review. The agency is holding information sessions on the ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed by an environmental group seeking to force federal agencies to analyze whether about two dozen dams operating in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana are ...

I’m against extending the bull trout habitat to the entire Columbia River Water Shed and more. And saddling taxpayers for both sides of lawsuits and appeals, win or lose, our judicial system ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday said it will designate 3,780 miles of streams and 110,364 acres of lakes and reservoirs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana as ...