Bull Trout

Residents voice Plan concerns
The Western News
“This revised plan takes into consideration changes in the timber industry, and species that need to be protected like the bull trout and the grizzly bear.” Edwards explained the Draft Forest Proposal was written with the input of stakeholders, ...

Boise River bull trout adapting to reservoirs
The Idaho Statesman
Bull trout are native to Idaho and most commonly found in cold, clear mountain streams. In 1998, they were listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act, but Idaho's rivers and streams remain a stronghold for the fish.

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Forest Service, environmental group settle timber sale dispute
Longview Daily News
But the GP Task Force filed an appeal, citing potential damage to habitat for bull trout, an endangered species. And several agencies plan to reintroduce salmon and steelhead to the streams over the next few years. "The Gifford Pinchot Task Force was ...

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Ex-foes aim for common ground on Idaho forests
The Idaho Statesman
The idea is that through careful combinations of thinning, prescribed burning and logging — with stream buffers to protect endangered salmon and bull trout — loggers can mimic the effect of fire at keeping the forests healthy and not dangerously ...

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The Idaho Statesman
How would a new approach to managing endangered salmon affect Idaho?
The Idaho Statesman
In most of the rivers in Idaho where endangered salmon and steelhead live, endangered bull trout also live — but those are managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service under the act. That forces ranchers, loggers, state officials and others who live ...

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Pity the Sacketts? Not much
High Country News
Some area residents are battling against a 14-lot subdivision planned for the north end of Priest Lake, which is also a refuge for threatened bull trout in the Kaniksu National Forest. That forest also supports both black and grizzly bears, ...

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Credits for Dungeness water use in new rule
Peninsula Daily
Species in the Dungeness River are threatened, including the Dungeness chinook, summer chum and bull trout, Ecology said, with insufficient stream flow a critical factor. Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at ...

Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog)
Rivers, Including the Bitterroot, Rebound After Fires
Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog)
... did to the attitudes of anglers—basically, it beat them down and many thought that the Bitterroot and its all important tributary streams would be destroyed, along with those native cutthroat and bull trout, and its non-native browns and rainbows.

County planners reject Grant PUD's White River fish project
The Wenatchee World Online
Bull trout, which lived in the lake, eat young salmon. “I've never been dead-set against this issue,” Wilson said. “All we've ever said is, 'Show us this can work.'” If it can't work, why spend a gazillion dollars up there?” White River resident Shanda ...

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OregonLive.com
BPA rejects 'gray line' alternative route
Longview Daily News
Negatively impacting habitats of endangered spotted owls, bald eagles and bull trout. • Constraining logging on up to 1.6 million acres of Washington Department of Natural Resources timberland. The BPA, the Pacific Northwest's largest power marketer, ...
Bonneville Power Administration eliminates citizen-proposed route for I-5 ...OregonLive.com

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Tip Jar Donation
High Country News (blog)
The lake, fed by undisturbed mountain streams, has been designated critical habitat for the threatened bull trout. Even the owners of the local golf course, four miles down the shoreline from the Sackett lot, brag about their property's most unique ...

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Otters make themselves at home on Duwamish
MyNorthwest.com
It adds habitat along the bank, in shallow water, and in the intertidal area, resulting in a net gain of more than an acre of shallow and riparian habitat for threatened Puget Sound Chinook and Coastal/Puget Sound bull trout.

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The Guide's Forecast: Jan. 12-18
OregonLive.com
Steelheading is winding down as summers enter tributaries to spawn. Crescent Lake has continued to produce fair catches of large lake trout to trollers using downriggers. Bull trout catches have been good at Lake Billy Chinook with the best action ...

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A Mining Law Whose Time Has Passed
New York Times
Scientists predict that these mines will deplete flows in wilderness streams, including essential habitat for the region's threatened bull trout. At the request of members of the Oregon Congressional delegation, the Forest Service proposed to withdraw ...

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Industry News
PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)
The licensee also proposed continued implementation of the Wells Anadromous Fish Agreement and implementation of management plans for water quality, bull trout, Pacific lamprey, white sturgeon, resident fish, aquatic nuisance species, wildlife and ...

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KLCC FM Public Radio
Saving the Unloved Chum Salmon
KLCC FM Public Radio
There's a long history of fishing in the basin for Chinook, coho, sockeye, bull trout, steelhead – 12 of the listed runs. Lucky number 13? Chum salmon. Todd Hillson: "They're called 'dog salmon'. There's several different ideas on the origin of that ...

OPB News
Thinking Outside The Pond: What's The Best Role For Hatchery Fish?
OPB News
Bull trout. Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service. Salmon hatcheries are controversial, but there's one thing that various officials and experts agree on: hatchery fish are not perfect replacements for wild fish. Hatcheries have been used for decades ...

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Bucket List 2012
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
“The Bob” is a refuge for grizzly bears and bull trout and plays home to some of the most spectacular scenery in Montana. Two main attractions of the Bob Marshall Wilderness are the Chinese Wall and the South Fork of the Flathead River.

Outdoors calendar: Week of Jan. 8
OregonLive.com
503-804-9868 Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation: Bull trout reintroduction in the Clackamas River by biologists Patrick Barry and Chris Allen. 6 pm Wednesday. Ecotrust Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave., Portland. Register at owhf.org/discoveringwildlife. ...

Taku River task force begins fact finding mission
Juneau Empire
All five species of salmon are there, along with steelhead, northern pike and bull trout. Swanton said he even has anecdotal evidence of green sturgeon. Swanton said his primary tool for assessing fish stocks is the fishwheel. ...