Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is encouraging people to participate in the public comment process for several proposals ...

MISSOULA -- While crossbreeding with other fish remains the biggest risk to Montana’s westslope cutthroat trout, new DNA testing shows the populations may be tougher than expected.

Montana’s state fish, cutthroat trout are native to the mountain west, including in the Flathead Valley; they have evolved for hundreds of years to the landscape, since about the last ice age.

Sports; Outdoors; Yellowstone cutthroat trout habitat in Montana mended Thu., June 12, 2025 A Montana Conservation Corps crew helps install a log jam on Mill Creek as part of an overall project to ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for public comments on proposed state efforts to protect native westslope cutthroat trout in the Flathead Basin’s tributaries. One half of Montana’s ...

As a tributary to Slough Creek and the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park, the Forest Service cites Buffalo Creek as the main source of non-native rainbow trout that are spreading downstream and ...

We ve all seen the bumper sticker: Native Montanan. It expresses pride in our heritage, the pride that native Montanans take in long-term family attachments to this wonderful state and its ...

Spawning Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri). (Jacob W. Frank/NPS) (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to swap rainbow trout with Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Montana’s ...

And fish for brown, rainbow, brook and cutthroat trout. The river has changed since a rare combination of more-than-usual rain and snowmelt overwhelmed the Yellowstone on June 13, sending 52,000 ...

Here we are, almost halfway through July, and the weather has heated up, as has the local trout fishing in many lakes around ...

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking anglers in the state to help with ongoing trout research projects. Working with Montana State University, biologists are in their ...

Dec. 4—Hybridization between native cutthroat trout and invasive rainbow trout in the Flathead Valley could prove a major cause of biodiversity loss and a harm to native species, according to a ...