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Yellowstone Fish Reports
A collage of photos: person holding a giant trout and a person standing next to a boat by a body of water.
NPS photo by(left)Ertel and (right)Koel
Graduate researcher holding giant cutthroat trout at Clear Creek, Yellowstone National Park (left) and Yellowstone National Park fisheries biologist (right) with an electrofishing raft on the Yellowstone River upstream of Yellowstone Lake.
 

Peer-reviewed Literature

Other Technical Reports

  • Evaluation of stream water quality in the Greater Yellowstone Network parks using benthic macroinvertebrate communities as biological indicators. YCR-2006-07 (1.1 MB pdf)
  • Bioassessment and water quality sampling of Middle Creek and Mammoth Crystal Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2002-2005. YCR-2006-06 (508 kb pdf)
  • Effects of snowmobile emissions on chemistry of snowmelt runoff in Yellowstone National Park YCR-2006-01 (1.1 MB pdf)
  • Protection of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. NPS/NRWRD/NRTR-2003/314 (627 Kb pdf)
  • The Yellowstone Lake crisis: confronting a lake trout invasion. A report to the Director of the National Park Service. YCR-2005 (746 kb pdf)

Yellowstone Science Articles

National Environmental Protection Act Documents

Additional Technical Information

Additional information regarding Yellowstone’s fish and other aquatic resources is available at the Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center. Visit the GYSLC at www.greateryellowstonescience.org

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Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988  

Did You Know?
The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.

Last Updated: March 18, 2008 at 12:00 EST