The lakes in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains historically didn't contain fish, but stocking of trout that began in the early 1900s has created an environment in which hundreds of those lakes now have ...

UW researchers ply the waters of an alpine lake in the Stough Basin of Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains as part of their research into the impacts of trout stocking in the once-fishless lakes. Among ...

A University of Wyoming researcher will continue to study the impact of trout in high-elevation lakes of the Wind River Range thanks to a more than $300,000 grant. Amy Krist, an associate professor in ...

Scientists found that trout from lakes stocked decades ago in the Wind River Mountains have higher numbers of gill rakers, which are bony or cartilage structures in the gullets of fish that act as ...