Comments about ‘Forest Service backs off Boulder Creek poisoning plan’

They've been trying a similar "poison and plant" in Cherry Lake (which is in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area) and Cherry Creek (which drains into the Blue Ribbon Madison River) for about 7 years now. They keep pouring in the poison every year trying to get rid of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout so they can plant Westslope Cutthroat Trout. How dumb is that?

But so far, the results haven't quite turned out the way the fish biologists predicted. And no wonder -- trying to poison out a living stream, with all the various interconnected subterranean water and adjacent wetlands is almost impossible.

It won't work on East Boulder, either. But hey, the same people that planted the brook trout and rainbow trout are now out there killing them with poison. Some might say they have a credibility problem...a big one.