Glacier National Park’s fisheries program recently began a couple of conservation projects to preserve native bull trout, and remove lake trout in the North Fork Area in Glacier.

Management Assistant Denise Germann explained what the projects were all about:

"There's two projects: One is a bull trout conservation project on Quartz Lake and Logging Lake. Those are both in the North Fork area of the park," Germann said. "Basically it's a continuation of preserving bull trout in those areas. The other is a fish passage barrier that we will construct on Akokala Creek, which is also located in the North Fork area."

Germann said these high elevation lakes still have the native fish populations in them and glacier is trying to improve the population in these areas. She added that this process is a critical role in maintaining the population of the trout.

"It's some gill netting, so actually netting some of the lake trout, the non-native species, and actually removing them from the population," Germann said. "With the fish passage barrier, it will keep the west slope cutthroat genetically pure, and the bull trout as well."

Germann said work will start this fall and continue on through the next three years.

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