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Bull Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Montana, United States. It is in the southwestern part of the county, surrounding the lake of the same name. Montana Highway 56 runs along the east side of the lake, leading north 18 miles (29 km) to Troy in the Kootenay River valley and south 19 miles ...
There are at least 31 game and 59 non-game fish species known to occur in Montana. [1] Among Montana's fish, three are listed as endangered or threatened species and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks lists a number of species as species of concern. [2] Species are listed by common name, scientific name, typical habitat and ...
Mountain whitefish possess a forked homocercal tail. The short head has a small mouth underneath the snout. The short dorsal fin has 12–13 rays, with 11–13 for the anal fin, 10–12 for the pelvic fins, and 14–18 for the pectoral fins. Size has been recorded at up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) in length and a weight of 2.9 kilograms (6.4 lb).
It lies between the southwest flank of the Whitefish Range and the northeast flank of Lion Mountain [5] in Flathead County. This natural 5.2 square miles (13 km 2) lake has a maximum length of 5.8 miles (9.3 km) and width of 1.4 miles (2.3 km), and is 233 feet (71 m) at its deepest. Whitefish Lake has a surface elevation of 2,999 feet (914 m ...
Description. Like other species of char, the fins of a bull trout have white leading edges. Its head and mouth are unusually large for salmonids, giving it its name. Bull trout have been recorded measuring up to 103 cm (41 in) in length and weighing 14.5 kg (32 lb). [4] Bull trout may be either migratory, moving throughout large river systems ...
Flathead Lake (Salish: člq̓etkʷ, Kutenai: yawuʔnik̓ ʔa·kuq̓nuk) [3] is a large natural lake in northwest Montana, United States. The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula of the era of the last interglacial. [4] Flathead Lake is a natural lake along the mainline of the Flathead River.
The Fish and Wildlife Service's bull trout recovery plan identified reintroducing the fish to the lower Pend Oreille River system as a way to help the species, and it mentioned Sullivan Lake as ...
The westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus lewisi), also known as the black-spotted trout, common cutthroat trout and red-throated trout is a species of the cutthroat trout group and is a freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. [4] The cutthroat is the Montana state fish. [5]