The allure of finding gold in Paradise Valley’s Mill Creek attracted placer miners to the stream as soon as the western boundary of the Crow Reservation was reduced by the federal government in 1882.

Spawning Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri). (Jacob W. Frank/NPS) (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to swap rainbow trout with Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Montana’s ...

A tagged non-native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout being returned to Red Rock Creek, after being collected in a fish trap on Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, MT. (USFWS) The Montana Department of ...

A federal judge has halted a controversial plan to poison a remote mountain creek in Montana's Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness. The ruling put a stop to a proposed trout restoration project that's been ...

We ve all seen the bumper sticker: Native Montanan. It expresses pride in our heritage, the pride that native Montanans take in long-term family attachments to this wonderful state and its open spaces ...

When it comes to genetic diversity, the cutthroat blows all other trout out of the water. You’ll find them scattered across western North America, in isolated pockets – the trout in each of these ...

Twenty years ago, when Trent Tatum and his business partner began building a fishing empire on a blue-ribbon tail water in central Wyoming, two clients could catch up to 80 fish a day. That’s roughly ...