West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) that would conserve westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout in the upper Camas drainage. The project would remove non-native Yellowstone cutthroat trout from Camas Lake, Lake Evangeline, and Camas Creek above Arrow Lake with the fish toxicant rotenone, and relocate native westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout to Camas Lake and Lake Evangeline.
The EA evaluates project impacts to park resources. It is available on the National Park Service Planning, Environment & Public Comment (PEPC) website at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/UpperCamas. Comments can be posted on this website, or sent by mail to Superintendent, Glacier National Park, Attn: Upper Camas Fisheries EA, P.O. Box 128, West Glacier, Montana, 59936. The EA may also be requested by calling 406-888-7898. The EA will be available for public review for 20 days; comments are due April 17, 2019.
The park paused a larger fisheries planning effort initiated in April of 2016 to instead evaluate and focus on targeted fisheries management projects that can be analyzed in site-specific detail. Based on the success of these smaller scale actions, the park may or may not continue with a plan that identifies fisheries actions at the park-wide level at some point in the future. Public scoping was not re-initiated for the current EA, because scoping for the larger fisheries plan provided the opportunity for early comments on the use of rotenone and the translocation of native fish.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
