Public Comments Sought On Cutthroat Trout Restoration

An environmental assessment on westslope cutthroat trout restoration in Yellowstone National Park is open for public comment until midnight on June 7. The National Park Service wants to restore genetically pure westslope cutthroat trout in East Fork Specimen Creek in Yellowstone. The native trout has declined in the park and elsewhere within its range in the upper Missouri River drainage as a result of interbreeding with introduced cutthroat and rainbow trout. The environmental assessment is available at http:parkplanning.nps.gov or at http:www.nps.gov/yell/technical/planning/index.htm or by writing to Westslope Cutthroat Trout Restoration, Yellowstone National Park, P.O. Box 168, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Comments must be submitted by the end of the 30-day comment period on June 7 to the above address, electronically to the National Park Service park planning website listed above or delivered to the park headquarters in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming.