Wild & Native Trout Projects

Bring Back the Natives – Locations in US of projects intended to restore native trout fisheries depleted by harmful fishing regulations, hatchery stocking programs, pollution, and runoff.

 Local TU volunteers have been involved in scores of EAS and BBN projects, including:

·         Solving fish passage problems in Oregon's McKenzie River watershed, which supports bull trout, westslope cutthroats and chinook salmon;

·         Fencing out livestock from Wyoming's LaBarge Creek, which boasts a rare population of native Colorado River cutthroat;

·         Enhancing habitat for bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout in Montana's Blackfoot River;

·         Reintroducing native greenback cutthroat trout in the Poudre River in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park;

·         Conducting a genetic study project as part of a lakewide initiative to restore large, lake-run brook trout known as "coasters" in Lake Superior; and

·         Reestablishing stable, reproducing populations of brook trout in their original range -- in areas of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park that are buffered from acid rain and encroaching exotic species.

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