• PARTNER: PROTECT YOUR WATERS
  • Go To: THE FLIES OF YELLOWSTONE
  • Go To: YELLOWSTONE FISHING WEATHER
  • Go To: YELLOWSTONE FLY FISHING MAPS
  • Visit: Moldy Chum
  • Visit: The Horse's Mouth
  • Visit: Chi Wulff
  • Visit: Parks' Fly Shop
  • Thursday, May 04, 2006

    YELLOWSTONE CUTTHROAT FEATURED IN LAWSUIT

    FINALLY SOME ACTION
    this native deserves some respect



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    -- As soon as the USFWS decided that there was no need to heed the advice of Yellowstone Park fisheries experts it became apparent that something had to be done. It has been. Even if the federal government fails to act on the advice of it's own experts, other sane people, groups, and organizations will.
    -- Listing, as endangered was recommended last year and first reported widely in the press. The responsible agencies ignored the warning. These are the same agencies that do not see whirling disease as a threat to native trout.
    -- Now the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Pacific Rivers Council announced they would challenge the USFWS's decision not to extend 'endangered species' protection to the cutthroats.

    Read More:
    Billings Gazette
    National Parks Traveler
    Kempthorne

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