10/03/05 Bull trout

When a Bull trout takes your fly you know it, they are just more aggressive than a rainbow or a brook. But when it comes to species survival without our intervention they aren't so tough. The bull trout unlike it cousins, the cutthroat or rainbow is far more persnickety about where it lives, preferring the cold clean water of the Northwest, leaving the fish venerable to land management conditions that impact stream habitat like logging, farming or grazing. To further protect bull trout the US fish and Wildlife service announced that they will designate more than 100,000 acres of lakes and reservoirs in Oregon Washington , Idaho and Montana as critical habitat for threatened bull trout, meaning that managers of federal lands will now work in conjunction with biologists on land use decisions effecting fish habitat. Environmentalists suing the government on behalf of the bull trout felt the allotment fell short. Fish and Game officials responded by reminding them to include the thousands of acres of streams already undergoing conservation efforts into this mix and in then in the words of the great conservationist Theodore Roosevelt , it then looks "bully" for the bull trout. Source: ENN.news.com Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Bull Trout Habitat 09/26/05 by Nicholas k. Geranios