Author: William C. Kendall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781330377390

Excerpt from The Fishes of the Yellowstone National Park The natural fish fauna of the Yellowstone National Park consists of hut a few species, owing to the facts that distribution must have occurred in recent geological times and that all of the streams leaving the lava beds do so by means of vertical waterfalls situated in deep canyons. Except in Yellowstone River and its tributaries, in Gibbon River, and in Lava Creek, no fishes have been found above these falls except where their presence may be accounted for by imperfect watersheds separating these streams from others. The known species of natural occurrence in the park arc longnose sucker, rosyside sucker, chub, silverside minnow, longnose dace, whitefish, cutthroat trout, grayling, and blob. Of these only the trout and grayling were recognized as game fishes, although the white-fish might justly be so considered. While these fishes were wonderfully abundant in the waters inhabited by them, the annually increasing number of tourists, many of whom were anglers, made it desirable to stock some of the previously barren waters with game fishes. An examination of the park waters by Forbes in 1890 showed that many of these waters were well supplied with crustacean and insect food and were otherwise suited to certain species. Referring to the supposed obstacle to the spread of fish life in the park, Dr. Jordan said that the waters of the geysers and other calcareous and silicious springs appeared not to be objectionable to fishes. In Yellowstone Lake trout were found especially abundant about the overflow from the Lake Geyser Basin, where the hot water flowed for a time at the surface, and trout could be taken immediately under these currents. It was noted also that trout had been known to rise to a fly through the scalding hot surface current and that they lingered in the neighborhood of hot springs in the bottom of the lake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.