Gunsight Lake bull trout project in Glacier lands in federal court in ...
Sep 17, 2024 · A couple of conservation groups are asking a federal court to stop a Glacier National Park plan to put endangered bull trout in Gunsight Lake, where they have never lived. The plan is called the Westslope Cutthroat and Bull Trout Preservation in Gunsight Lake Project.
Conservation groups file federal lawsuit against National Park …
Sep 17, 2024 · Local conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court which alleges the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by approving a trout...
Plan for bull trout in Gunsight Lake violates federal law, groups ...
Jul 1, 2024 · As planned, the project would remove non-native rainbow trout from the lake in 2023 and would later stock native fish, bull trout, mountain whitefish and westslope cutthroat trout. According to Glacier National Park, an environmental assessment found no significant adverse impacts for the plan.
Groups Challenge Glacier Park’s Bull Trout Preservation Project in ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Last summer, fisheries managers in Glacier National Park used a fish toxicant to remove non-native rainbow trout from Gunsight Lake, laying the foundation for a multi-year conservation strategy...
NPS Approves Gunsight Lake Native Trout Preservation Project
Aug 14, 2023 · Following the removal of the non-native rainbow trout, genetically pure WCT, bull trout, and mountain whitefish will be translocated into Gunsight Lake. Project activities will begin late August or early September of 2023.
Plan for bull trout in Gunsight Lake violates federal law, groups ...
Jul 5, 2024 · But Gunsight Lake was historically fishless, bull trout are threatened, and the Park Service plan illegally creates an “experimental population,” the conservation groups allege.
Groups claim Glacier Park’s bull trout project ... - Daily Inter Lake
Jul 5, 2024 · Glacier National Park biologists have undertaken an effort to stock mountain whitefish, west slope cutthroat trout and bull trout to Gunsight Lake, a high alpine lake near Jackson Glacier and...
Public Review Begins for Westslope Cutthroat and Bull Trout ...
May 15, 2023 · Glacier National Park is proposing to remove non-native rainbow trout from Gunsight Lake and establish the lake as secure habitat for native westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout.
Public Scoping Begins for Proposed Native Fish Preservation at Gunsight …
Sep 28, 2022 · Glacier National Park is proposing to remove the non-native rainbow trout from Gunsight Lake using a fish toxicant. Following the removal of the rainbow trout, bull trout and genetically pure westslope cutthroat trout would be translocated into Gunsight Lake.
Glacier National Park to move forward with Gunsight Lake trout …
Aug 15, 2023 · The National Park Service last week approved plans to poison Gunsight Lake to kill non-native rainbow trout living there, according to a news release.