A recent analysis of the Big Hole River indicates that arctic grayling survival hasn’t improved over almost 20 years so some are saying voluntary water conservation doesn’t go far enough. Others say ...

The Center for Biological Diversity released an analysis today showing that a two-decade, state-led voluntary conservation agreement has not produced a measurable increase in the abundance of ...

Duncan Adams Lee Newspapers May 1, 2025 May 1, 2025 BUTTE — Imagine a basketball-cradling Danny DeVito standing atop a stack of Arctic grayling studies, lawsuits, op-eds and strategies. The 4-foot-10 ...

A federal district court judge in Missoula listened Friday as lawyers debated the status of river-dwelling Arctic grayling in the Big Hole River and grayling elsewhere in the upper Missouri River ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal district court in Montana ruled Tuesday afternoon that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred in denying Montana’s Arctic grayling population protection under the ...

When it comes to Arctic grayling in the Big Hole River, even the numbers are controversial. The native fish – once a species of concern – are estimated in the thousands in the river, said Emma Cayer, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana’s Arctic graylings will get another chance at protection under the Endangered Species Act ...

In his Dec. 2 guest opinion in The Montana Standard, Dean Peterson raises some good questions regarding Big Hole River grayling, water use, and ranchers. Of course, these are the main reasons to list ...

The Big Hole Watershed Committee emerged in 1995, following a 1994 notice by the Fish and Wildlife Service that listing the fluvial Arctic grayling was warranted but precluded by other, ...

Arctic grayling are known for prominent dorsal fins. The river-dwelling population in the Big Hole River has been the focus since 1991 of debates about whether the small, isolated population should be ...