Photos from the frontlines
YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION
One of Yellowstone National Park’s top conservation priorities is to decrease the number of non-native lake trout. In recent years, these predatory invaders have dramatically reduced the number of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake. As of Aug. 16, more than 260,000 lake trout have been caught this year in Yellowstone Lake. This has a direct impact throughout the ecosystem, as cutthroat are an important food source for eagles, grizzlies, otters and other wildlife. Yellowstone Park Foundation’s funding of the Native Fish Conservation Program is enabling a significant effort to suppress lake trout through gillnetting on the lake. Below are images from the frontlines of the fight to save Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
