To meet our mission of assisting the Tribes with sensible fish and wildlife conservation we perform the following activities: 

• Managing populations of wildlife, native fish and stocked fish 
• Devising sustainable fishing and hunting seasons 
• Protecting and restoring sagebrush uplands, streams, wetlands and riparian habitat 
• Capturing and marking fish and wildlife for study and transplants 
• Surveying and monitoring wildlife using planes, helicopters, and radio-telemetry 
• Stocking fish 
• Creating fish passage by removing fish barriers like irrigation dams and constructing fish ladders that allow fish to stair-step pass an existing dam 
• Providing outreach and education to youth and adults 
• Big game habitat monitoring and restoration. 
• In stream flow negotiations for fish and wildlife. 
• Fishery Management Consultation on National Wildlife Refuges. 

Click below to listen to the Fish of the Week podcast and learn more about the Yellowstone cutthroat trout!