The 36-page study on the Upper Blackfoot River Watershed released earlier this month by the U.S. Geological Survey also found that selenium levels spiked in the river during spring thaw.

UBC Idaho Department of Fish and Game Fishery Technicians Nate Heiner and Austin Young prepare to measure and tag migrating Yellowstone cutthroat trout at the fish trap on the Upper Blackfoot River.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game counts Yellowstone cutthroat trout at its weir upstream of the Upper Blackfoot Reservoir. The count confirmed 1,300 mature cutthroat this spring.

The effort is funded, in part, by a collaboration involving mining companies, ranchers, Trout Unlimited and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, called the Upper Blackfoot Confluence.

An excavator improves the banks of a tributary within the Upper Blackfoot River watershed for the benefit of Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho (KIFI) - Efforts to restore Yellowstone cutthroat trout in southeast Idaho are paying off. According to Trout Unlimited, they are seeing more fish in the Blackfoot River. On ...

Two conservation groups and three phosphate mining companies in eastern Idaho have formed a partnership intended to improve water quality in the Blackfoot River in eastern Idaho.

BONNER, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced the upper Blackfoot River from River Junction Fishing Access Site to Russel Gates Memorial Fishing Access Site are closed. The closures ...

JR Simplot Company, Monsanto and Agrium/Nu-West Industries have joined with the Idaho Conservation League and Trout Unlimited to form the Upper Blackfoot River Initiative for Conservation.

Idaho Fish and Game said the nearly 5-foot-long sturgeon was found swimming in the shallow Blackfoot canal with more than a third of its body above the water.

IDFG said the City of Blackfoot uses the pond to support "aquifer recharge efforts in the upper Snake River Plain," so the lowering of water occurs annually to meet needs.