Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie

When Soda Butte Creek was treated to remove nonnative creek trout a few years ago, many anglers breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that flipside milestone for cutthroat trout conservation had been reached.

Earlier this year, however, creek trout were rediscovered in Soda Butte Creek, which meant fisheries managers had to once then poison the river and remove them. Creek trout are highly competitive fish, and will out-eat cutthroat in many Western rivers and streams. It’s nonflexible for cutthroat to coexist with creek trout, which is why they’re removed to help restore cutthroat trout habitat.

According to an vendible from the Montana Free Press, fisheries managers suspect that a skillet biologist – a term for people who stock fish into rivers considering they think they know largest than biologists – put the creek trout in Soda Butte Creek. They don’t have any nonflexible evidence, but it’s a logical explanation.

The good news is that the creek trout were serving to a small section of the creek, which has once been treated to skiver any remaining nonnative fish.

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