Governor hosts community meeting about Big Hole River trout decline
The alarm went up earlier this year when Montana FWP found low trout numbers in the Big Hole and other local rivers.
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The alarm went up earlier this year when Montana FWP found low trout numbers in the Big Hole and other local rivers.
After years of grassroots collaboration and sounding the alarm about trout population and water declines in the Big Hole Valley, locals’ efforts to figure out why fish are getting sick and dying in record numbers in the Jefferson Basin and why water levels continue to drop are drawing additional attention from the state government.
Gov. Greg Gianforte flew in to Wise River to participate Wednesday in a roundtable discussion about declining trout populations in the Big Hole River and other rivers in the region.
The alarm went up earlier this year when Montana FWP found low trout numbers in the Big Hole and other local rivers.
The Stanchfields take daily weather observations at their location near Wise River for the NWS’s official climate network of 8,500 sites across the U.S.