While bull trout reproduction in northwest Montana appears to be rebounding,
an official recovery of western Montana’s bull trout will still depend
on the welfare of the species outside the state.
Recently completed surveys show a continuing recovery trend in spawning
streams in the Flathead and Swan drainages — two of the state’s largest
bull trout drainages. The number of gravelly spawning nests, known as “redds,”
has increased dramatically in many streams since low points of the …
