Bozeman National Fish Hatchery

Authorized by Congress in eighteen ninety-two and completed in eighteen ninety-six, the Bozeman National Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest federal fish hatcheries still operating in the country. Cold spring water from the base of the Bridger Range feeds its raceways, providing ideal conditions for raising trout and salmon. For about seventy years the hatchery supplied fingerlings to rivers and lakes across Montana and the northern Rockies, helping to restock waters depleted by the mining and logging booms of the late eighteen hundreds.

The original buildings from the eighteen nineties are on the National Register of Historic Places. The hatchery sits just north of Bozeman and remains an active U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service facility, though hatchery production ended in nineteen sixty-six and it now works as the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, a research and education center.