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MONTANA TU’S SUGGESTIONS FOR ANGLERS TO MINIMIZE IMPACTS ON MONTANA’S FISHERIES DURING LOW FLOW AND HIGH TEMPERATURE PERIODS 1. Avoid streams where low flows and high temperatures pose problems to fish. Explore smaller higher-elevation streams and lakes where fish are much less affected by drought. Montana has thousands of...

Native Fish News

In case you missed it, there has been some rare good news for our native fish populations in the last few weeks. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced that they will continue lake trout suppression netting on Swan Lake for another five years. 89% of comments received by MFWP...

Netting on Swan Lake to continue

Thanks from Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited to all of you who submitted comments to MFWP on the continuation of the lake trout netting on Swan Lake. FWP released their Decision Notice this week and opted to continue the project for five more years. Your comments were much appreciated and...

FVTU Chapter Comments on Swan Lake EA

June 14, 2012 Leo Rosenthal Fisheries Biologist Region 1 Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks 490 N. Meridian Road Kalispell, MT 59901 Re: Swan Lake Environmental Assessment Comments Dear Leo: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Environmental Assessment for continuing an experimental removal of lake trout in...

Exempt Wells: Be part of the solution

Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited members and friends, On Wednesday, June 20 the Water Policy Interim Committee, established by the Montana Legislature, will hold a meeting in Kalispell to receive public input on proposed legislation dealing with the problem of exempt wells in Montana. See the meeting agenda here. A...

A Sense of Place

On the “Fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one” the Forty-Second Congress of the United States passed “AN ACT to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River as a public park.” The world had its first National Park....

Everybody is a winner

Here are the happy winners of the Grand Prize raft package raffle from our annual banquet. The raft package was delivered to John and Linda Winnie of Kalispell. Congratulations to John and Linda and thanks to all of It removes plaque in my link purchase cheap cialis the blood...

Action Alert: Your help is needed for Swan Lake

Wild trout need your help. Montana FWP, Region 1, has released for public comment a draft environmental assessment for extension of the unique restoration effort for Swan Lake and the connected river system. Comments can be sent to FWP fisheries biologist Leo Rosenthal at; lrosenthal@mt.gov. Following the discovery of...

Volunteers Needed!

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Facts are Stubborn Things on Flathead Lake

by Chris Schustrom President John Adams famously said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”  This quote was mentioned recently in reference to the process currently underway that seeks...