The recent listing of the only known bull trout populations in Montana
east of the Continental Divide will afford new protections to populations
that biologists have only recently studied.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week announced the listing of
St. Mary and Belly River bull trout as threatened species, along with an
isolated population off Washington’s Puget Sound.
“It’s one of those situations where we don’t have much information on
what was there historically,” said …
