Glacier National Park Needs Your Help Today

Glacier National Park, in northwest Montana, contains approximately one-third of the remaining bull trout populations inhabiting natural lakes in the United States. Those populations have come under extreme peril in the last few years due to invasion from an excessive population of lake trout in Flathead Lake. Nine of twelve lakes on the west side of Glacier National Park have been become infested by non-native lake trout. Many of those populations are now considered functionally extinct. Park Service fisheries biologist, Clint Muhlfeld in Glacier, calls the lake trout invasion a “huge ecological health issue”.

In 2005, lake trout were discovered in Quartz Lake in the Park. In 2009 an experimental netting program was begun to remove lake trout and restore the native fish populations. That effort has been deemed to be largely effective in controlling the invasive lake trout. The Park Service and Glacier National Park have begun the scoping process to continue the netting effort on Quartz Lake and to add a netting program on neighboring Logging Lake.

Logging Lake was once considered the most productive bull trout fishery in the park.

Logging Lake is now at imminent risk of losing bull trout as a functional part of the aquatic ecosystem due to invasive non-native lake trout. Based on park netting data, without action, the Logging Lake bull trout population faces functional extinction in the near term, meaning that although there may remain a few individual bull trout in the lake, their numbers would be few enough that they would no longer play a significant role as a top-level predator nor maintain themselves as a self-sustaining population.

The proposal, now open for public comment, would conduct experimental netting of lake trout in Logging Lake and continue suppression efforts on Quartz Lake to remove juvenile lake trout that are not yet large enough to be caught. These efforts would help to conserve and maintain the natural condition of the park’s wilderness values by protecting native fish populations and help to maintain the ecological integrity of one of our most cherished natural wonders.

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Superintendent Glacier National Park

Attn: Logging/Quartz EA

P.O. Box 128

West Glacier, MT 59936

Phone: 406-888-7901