1. But environmentalists say the project would destroy the habitat of bull trout and wetslope cutthroat trout in the Blackfoot River. 2. Dirt from the road silts up a stream of bull trout, which can kill off the fish. 3. Environmentalists said the logging would cause widespread erosion and damage to streams that are home to the federally protected bull trout. 4. Federal officials want a Puget Sound chinook rule in place by fall, and another against harming bull trout in June. 5. For instance, the administration has refrained from listing the bull trout as threatened, though it admitted the fish had become so rare that the listing was warranted. 6. Indeed, the Nevada Division of Wildlife opposed the listing of the bull trout as threatened. 7. It also removed areas that environmentalists said were important habitat for the bull trout and the west slope cutthroat trout. 8. Pacts with state agencies assure that the listings will not prevent bull trout fishing, Babbitt noted, as he waved his Montana fishing license. 9. Streams provide matchless fishing for rainbow trout, bull trout and Arctic grayling. 10. The flood-prone North Fork, an icy river with whitefish, bull trout and cutthroat, chortles around the edges of his property. |