
Yellowstone biologists finally making headway against invasive lake trout
Twenty-four years of gillnetting operations are starting to turn the tide with a reduction of lake trout numbers.
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Twenty-four years of gillnetting operations are starting to turn the tide with a reduction of lake trout numbers.

Widespread extermination of wolves, cougars early last century meant elk herds able to grow in size, eating away willow plants and other vegetation along park’s streams, causing erosion damage. But in recent years, resurgent populations

Ruling nixes planned hunts in Wyoming and Idaho this fall.

The effort against the lake trout is the centerpiece of a long-term fight to help Yellowstone’s native cutthroat trout. Lake trout feed on cutthroats, causing the native fish population to decline.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — The impending change in Yellowstone National Park superintendents shouldn’t disrupt the progress of a quarantine program created to produce brucellosis-free bison, officials said. The transfer of a group of bull bison to

Cam Sholly replaces Dan Wenk, who said he was being forced out by the Trump administration following a dispute over bison.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — For the second time in three days, an elk has attacked a woman in Yellowstone National Park. The National Park Service says a female elk with a calf attacked 53-year-old Penny Allyson

BILLINGS, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park’s superintendent said that he plans to retire next year from a job he called “the best in the National Park Service” and dismissed speculation that the Trump administration pushed

Yellowstone Lake chief fisheries biologist investigating a case of trespass not transport after seeing how fish are invading high-elevation lakes in Glacier National Park.
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