11.   They also would drop protections for salmon and bull trout, such as prohibitions on logging or grazing near streams.

12.   Two creeks that contain imperiled bull trout were especially hard hit, he said.

13.   Environmentalists contend the mine will disrupt wildlife corridors in and out of Jasper and destroy a pristine habitat of grizzly bears, wolves, harlequin duck and bull trout.

14.   Federal authorities have blocked efforts to reopen it, fearing road repairs would jeopardize habitat of the threatened bull trout, which is protected under the Endangered Species Act.

15.   The Forest Service decided not to rebuild the road because eroding soil could foul the river and threaten the bull trout, now protected under the Endangered Species Act.

16.   The Jarbidge River, in a remote canyon near the Idaho border, is home of the southernmost population of bull trout in North America.

17.   The rules are aimed at protecting forests, range lands and endangered salmon and bull trout in the area.