Quick, can you name how many protected fish species we have in Idaho? For all you trivia buffs, the answer is four: white sturgeon, bull trout, burbot and sockeye salmon. For the most part, it’s easy ...

Something unusual is happening in America's wilderness — some animals and plants are moving away from their native habitats. The reason is a warming climate. It's getting too hot where they live.

On a damp October morning, a troop of wader-clad scientists plunged into Pinhead Creek, an icy Oregon stream around 60 miles southeast of Portland, to search for fish nests. Finding those nests, ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials are releasing a plan Thursday to recover struggling bull trout populations in five Western states with the goal of lifting Endangered Species Act protections for ...

An angler releases a bull trout in the upper South Fork of the Flathead River in the summer of 2016. Bull trout must be released unharmed in the river, but anglers may keep up to two fish per year ...

It's been decades since anyone has seen a bull trout in the , east of Portland. In that river, as in others across the Northwest, the brown, spotted fish used to be considered unwanted competition for ...

Bull trout are sometimes called “Dolly Vardens,” though that name correctly refers to an oceangoing relative of bull trout. The name is tied to both fishes’ appearance – olive green with yellow and ...

Bull trout, a native fish that’s extremely sensitive to changes in water quality, will retain its “threatened” status under the Endangered Species Act, federal officials announced Tuesday. Over the ...

The draft master plan for removing bull trout from Endangered Species Act protection was released at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, after 16 years of work and protracted legal battles. “What we’ve tried to do ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission decided to approve four additional protections for bull trout in the Hungry Horse Reservoir and the South Fork of the Flathead River. The new ...

Something unusual is happening in America's wilderness — some animals and plants are moving away from their native habitats. The reason is a warming climate. It's getting too hot where they live.