Faculty Advisor

Ed Weber

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2025

Keywords

Internship

Abstract

To start, the main goal of my job was to preserve native populations on Westslope Cutthroat and the endangered Bull Trout. This was done through a multitude of different projects and fi eldwork, ranging from electrofi shing, gill netting, biopsy sampling, to even EDNA. Within the larger realm of Glacier National Park Fisheries, the main focus is to protect and preserve the native Bull Trout. This species of char is endangered due to multiple reasons, but mainly it is due to overcompetition. Starting in the early 1900s, lake trout were introduced to the Flathead River drainage, the headwaters of the Columbia River basin, and have out competed the native populations of fi sh. Due to this stage of aquatic war between two apex salmonids, I was able to experience fi rsthand what it meant, along with how to preserve this native species through conservation. This was done through my gill netting experience at Logging Lake.

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English

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