Our Projects

Custer-Gallatin National Forest

Mill Creek YCT Conservation (MT)

Mill Creek is the largest watershed within the Upper Yellowstone River Sub-basin with 45 stream miles occupied by native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout.  Non-native brook and rainbow trout are ra...

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Snake River Fund

Hoback River Stream Monitoring (WY)

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USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center

Using eDNA to inform YCT Conservation (ID, WY, MT)

A major threat to Snake River Fine-Spotted and Yellowstone cutthroat trout (collectively referred to as YCT; Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) is hybridization with non-native Rainbow trout which...

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Caribou Targhee National Forest

Lower McCoy Creek Wetland Meadow Restoration (ID)

The McCoy Creek Wet Meadow Restoration Project is a joint Trout Unlimited and Caribou-Targhee National Forest project to improve habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout and other native species. Hi...

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Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Protecting Cutthroat Trout in Lower Green River

Wyoming Wildlife Federation is working closely with Wyoming Game and Fish Department to identify locations to build primitive boat access sites along the lower Green River where there is no access ...

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Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Flat Creek Restoration Phase 3 (WY)

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has been working to restore Flat Creek south of Jackson for over five years.  One Fly funded the initial design for the study and then habitat restoration ...

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Friends of the Teton River (ID)

Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Genetic Study (ID)

Friends of the Teton River in partnership with Idaho Fish and Game will study the genetics of YCT above and below Felt Dam. Currently Felt Dam is a fish passage barrier separating the upper and low...

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Montana State University-Cooperative Fishery Research Unit

Investigating the Current Status of YCT in Yellowstone Lake (WY)

Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (YCT) in Yellowstone Lake have been threatened for decades by the large invasive lake trout population.  Years of effort to reduce the lake trout now provide an opp...

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Henry’s Fork Foundation

Rainey Creek Fish Passage Improvement (ID)

Rainey Creek historically was one of the most productive spawning and rearing tributaries for native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout on the South Fork of the Snake River.  HFF proposes to restore ...

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Trout Unlimited

Lower Snake River Ranch (WY)

Trout Unlimited will improve 1000 feet of the Snake River for native Snake River Cutthroat Trout (SRCT) and restore stream, floodplain, and riparian functions by using bioengineering methods to sta...

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Caribou Targhee National Forest

Tincup Creek Floodplain Reconnect -Last Phase (ID)

The goal of the Tincup Floodplain Reconnect Project is to restore complexity and habitat to the stream. Tincup Creek is a Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (YCT) stream but this section is deeply incised...

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Trout Unlimited

River Bend Ranch Restoration and Passage Project Phase 2 (WY)

Trout Unlimited will improve 2.5 miles of habitat and passage for native SRCT and restore stream, floodplain, and riparian functions, stabilize stream channels and floodplains on the upper Hoback R...

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