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Federal judge nixes fish swapping plan in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Judge Molloy ruled that the U.S. Forest Service's plan to use motorized equipment and poison to remove non-native trout violates the Wilderness Act by harming wilderness character.
- Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy halted the plan to poison a remote creek and ordered the U.S. Forest Service to scrap rotenone use across 46 miles in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.
- Aiming to protect Yellowstone cutthroat trout, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks sought to remove nonnative rainbow trout introduced nearly a century ago and establish a secure population in Buffalo Creek drainage as warming streamflows reduce habitat.
- Authorities approved up to 60 days of motorized use and up to 81 aircraft landings and planned repeated rotenone application, plus remote field camps, helicopters, a radio repeater and fish barriers at Hidden Lake.
- In a 20-page Oct. 23 opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy wrote the project diminishes wilderness character on almost every level, rejected Magistrate Judge Kathleen DeSoto's findings, granted summary judgment to Wilderness Watch, and ordered the agency to abandon the plan.
- Amid wider conservation debates, a barred owls proposal to kill half a million owls across 24 million acres has drawn scrutiny in recent years, illustrating difficult trade-offs for federal and state wildlife and land managers in multi-year restoration projects and partner agencies.
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Judge halts fish poisoning plan proposed in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
A federal judge has halted a proposal to poison a remote creek in the Absaroka Mountains as part of a trout introduction project, writing that the plan runs counter to the Wilderness Act.
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Federal judge nixes fish swapping plan in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
A federal judge told the U.S. Forest Service that a plan to kill rainbow trout and replace them with native Yellowstone cutthroat trout along a 45-mile stretch of waterways in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness violates federal law. U.S. District Court Judge…
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