Managing wild trout

POWELL — After migrating to the North Fork of the Shoshone River and more than a dozen major tributaries to spawn in the spring and early-summer months, many of the highly migratory rainbow and Yellowstone cutthroat trout return to Buffalo Bill Reservoir.

This wild population of trout, which have survived without stocking efforts from Wyoming Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists, is the pride of the Cody Region.

But while the population isn’t being supplemented, it is getting help.

Regulations issued by the Fish Commissioner in 1884 (prior to the Game and Fish Department) on this fish...