Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited will be helping out once again this year with the native fish restoration effort on upper Sheppard Creek in the Tally Lake Ranger District. The USFS installed a barrier culvert on the upper reaches of Sheppard Creek to stop the invasion of non-native brook trout...

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...

The season is in full swing and it looks like fishing is great. I keep getting images like these of monster bull trout from Canadian drainages adjoining our own Flathead River to the north. viagra generic brand Maybe it’s time to take a lunch hour walk. Do not take...

Flathead Valley TU members and Friends, We need your help to continue the success of the Swan Lake Lake Trout Removal Project. The 2012 schedule is set and netting on Swan Lake will take place between August 12 and August 31. Occurrence of male sexual dysfunction is increasing partly...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....