The Gunsight Lake plan is “basically securing them some place to give them a chance in the future to adapt to a changing climate because things are happening really rapidly right now,” Downs said.

Gunsight Lake water quality is characterized in the environmental assessment as excellent and reflects “the pristine attributes that stimulated the creation of Glacier National Park and its ...

Gunsight Lake water quality is characterized in the environmental assessment as excellent and reflects “the pristine attributes that stimulated the creation of Glacier National Park and its ...

Gunsight Lake wilderness campground will close September 1, 2023, until spring of 2024. From May 14 – June 15, 2023, the NPS solicited formal public comments on the EA.

The Gunsight Lake wilderness campground will close on Sept. 1 until next spring. The National Park Service took public comments on an environmental assessment of the project in the spring. The ...

The Gunsight Lake wilderness campground would be closed to camping September 1, 2023, until spring of 2024. Following the removal of the non-native rainbow trout, ...

Gunsight Lake in Glacier National Park. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan) Just because climate change could affect bull trout doesn’t mean federal agencies can move them to Gunsight Lake from ...

Gunsight Lake could become the next threatened fish refuge in Glacier National Park under a new proposal out for public review. “It’s going to be about as resistant to warming water ...

Sep. 29—Glacier National Park is looking for public comment on a proposed plan to use fish poison to remove non-native rainbow trout from Gunsight Lake. The plan is part of an effort to protect ...

Glacier National Park just approved an ambitious and untested experiment at Gunsight Lake in the St. Mary watershed. The plan involves poisoning out the rainbow trout that were planted decades ago ...

Gunsight Lake in Glacier National Park. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan) A couple of conservation groups are asking a federal court to stop a Glacier National Park plan to put endangered bull ...

Second, in Gunsight Lake, the population won’t overlap with any nonexperimental bull trout, they said; some bull trout might swim over the waterfalls and out of Gunsight Lake, but none could return.