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.

During the 20th century, almost 400 million hatchery-raised rainbow trout were stocked in Montana lakes and streams. Those nonnative fish have the capability of interbreeding with native cutthroat ...

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.

Hoot-owl restrictions are already in place on the upper Madison River above Hebgen Lake, and on the lower Madison River from ...

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 ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana officials are moving ahead with a project to bring westslope cutthroat trout back ...

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 ...

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 ...