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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service load a tank of juvenile bull trout for a helicopter ride to Grace Lake in June 2020. The hatchery-raised bull trout may become the foundation of a ...

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 Center for Biological Diversity and the Idaho Conservation League filed a lawsuit earlier this month challenging a ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials say they’ll release their final plan Wednesday to recover struggling bull trout in five Western states with the goal of lifting Endangered Species Act protections ...

The photos on a fellow poacher’s phone show Tyler Warren of Pendleton posing with a dead bull trout over a frying pan and then holding a dead fish with a beer can stuffed in its mouth. Warren, 31, was ...

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.