Article: Of Frankenstein Fish and the Call of the Wild: A Trout's Tale - New York Times

TWO decades ago, when most other states were caught up in the mechanics of manufacturing ever more fish for anglers, Montana decided to go the other way. The state stopped planting trout in streams and tried to seal its borders from fish that did not belong in the cold, Rocky Mountain waters under the Big Sky. The idea was simple: let nature flourish, and man would be rewarded. Endowed with legendary rivers like the Madison, the Gallatin, the Missouri, the Blackfoot, the Yellowstone and the Bitterroot, Montana had to protect only those streams and, state fish managers hoped, thereby would nourish some of the most bounteous trout habitat the world has ever known. It worked beyond the most ...

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