Hi-Line Living: Creating fish habitat at Fresno

After Christmastime each year, a project collecting and placing Christmas trees begins to build habitats for the fish out at Fresno Reservoir.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks Havre Area Fish Biologist Cody Nagel said the trees are donated by local residents, then collected and stored by the city of Havre.

He said the trees are picked up by FWP and the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited drill holes in each tree trunk to secure cables, then load and haul them out onto Fresno Reservoir.

Hill County also helps collect the trees for the effort. He added that both FWP and Walleyes Unlimited collect...