The Bridger-Teton National Forest
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Distribution and Mapping
PROJECT NUMBER 2003-0208-008
NFWF & JHOF Partnership: $10,000
Local Match: $81,350
The Bridger-Teton National Forest is located in Western Wyoming and is
more than 3.4 million acres. The area contains pristine watersheds,
abundant wildlife and immense wildlands. The Bridger-Teton has three
nationally dedicated wilderness areas, which include the Bridger
Wilderness, the Gros Ventre Wilderness and the Teton Wilderness.
These areas comprise a large part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
that is the largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 United States.
The Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation - National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Conservation Partnership Program is providing funding to
document the geographic distribution of Yellowstone cutthroat trout and
 Snake
River cutthroat trout in the Snake River headwaters of Wyoming to
provide land and resources managers with information to develop
population management plans. This is the only area where both species
are indigenous. The inventory and mapping effort will be the first
comprehensive and systematic application at the basin scale, and will
display the present distribution of these species in the River. Although
several thousand kilometers of fish bearing streams have been surveyed
to date, portions of two major drainages, the Salt River and Buffalo
Fork River, remain to be completed. Sampling will be conducted using
electro shocker techniques and the data will be entered to a
standardized GIS system with global positioning system (GPS) to identify
the exact locations of the fish.
Project Status:
This project was just approved and the grantees have just received their
contracts. Implementation of the project will begin shortly.
For more information, contact: Mark Novak,
manovak@fs.fed.us,
435-797-2468.
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