Yellowstone Park to conduct invasive species removal to preserve cutthroat trout

By: Micah Drew

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: August 28, 2026

Words: 273

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Yellowstone National Park will conduct an invasive species removal project in the northern part of the park as part of an ongoing conservation effort to preserve native Yellowstone Cutthroat trout.

Beginning Aug. 31, Buffalo Creek, a tributary of Slough Creek, will be closed to the public from the northern park boundary downstream to the confluence with Slough Creek. The closure will last until Sept. 7.

Biologists remove invasive rainbow trout from the creek …

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