Tearing the web: Invasive trout disrupt Glacier park’s lakes
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Tearing the web: Invasive trout disrupt Glacier park’s lakes

Associated Press  

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. And then the lake trout started spreading through the Flathead River network, invading the bull trout strongholds of Glacier National Park’s west and south sides. Watery garden of Eden: Lo, bull trout findeth refuge in remote Glacier lake Study lead author Charles Wainright of the U.S. Geological Survey spent 49 days prowling 10 remote Montana lakes. That included Glacier Park battlegrounds like Quartz and Logging and Arrow lakes, as well as sites in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex that still have undamaged bull trout habitat, such as Big Salmon Lake. Preserving them has inspired several responses, from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Mack Days fishing derby to multi-agency efforts to transplant bull trout into remote Glacier lakes that lake trout can’t reach.

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