bull trout

The complaint says the project will further harm threatened bull trout because of the haul roads planned along some of the few streams where bull trout live and spawn.

Michael Garrity writes, "We have millions of cattle in Montana, but there are very few bull trout left, especially in their historic spawning areas of the Upper Clark Fork River."

After the U.S. Department of Interior failed to uphold its part of a legal settlement, two organizations have renewed their lawsuit to try to save bull trout in the upper Clark Fork River.

A federal judge has found that the Flathead National Forest broke the law in a few more ways when it refused to consider the effect of certain roads on grizzly bears and bull trout.

Bull trout spawning sites in the Swan Lake basin hit their lowest count in 42 years in 2023, according to data from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.