Bush decision to give no critical habitat for bull trout - reversed!

[montana500]

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Bitterroot River named critical trout habitat
by GREG LEMON - Ravalli Republic Staff Reporter




The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced the designation of critical bull trout habitat in Montana, complying with a court order and revising a decision made by the service a year ago.

The agency plans to designate nearly 3,800 miles of stream and more than 110,000 acres of lakes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana as critical habitat for the bull trout.

In Montana alone, the designation is 1,058 miles of stream and 31,916 acres of lakes, all of which is habitat "considered not to be protected by some other plan out there," said Wade Fredenberg, native fish coordinator for the service in Kalispell.

This will include the entire mainstem of the Bitterroot River as well as the East Fork and West Fork.


This designation comes almost exactly one year after the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that no bull trout critical habitat would be designated in Montana. It was a decision that sparked a lawsuit by two Montana environmental groups.

[havocmom]

1. The nation has seen the fraud that is bush and is starting to undo damage

It will be a long, hard fight, but damn, I am cautiously optomistic.

Thank you for the good news, montana500!

Folks are kicking at the junta left, right and sideways. House of cards coming down soon.

[montana500]

3. info

I forgot to add- for anyone who does not know what the bull trout is , it is a fish that simply cannot tolerate roadbuilding and lack of water quality. It's a huge trout that spawns in the wildest headwaters in the nation. Montana is it's last best habitat, and that's because million acre wilderness areas still protect some of it's home rivers. Where it lives is simply the most scenic country in the nation.

[havocmom]

5. More info

I live in Mt and married to a conservationist who likes to fish and loves & understands the rivers in the west of the state ;)

But, hey the developers and trust funders want their trophy homes and their very own bridges over the rivers, so wadda ya gonna do :eyes: (Guess shooting them is outta the question?)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Good news.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. California decision rolls back part of Bush's Forests Act.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2115607