MSU Library Trout & Salmonid Lecture 2022 - Jim Goetz
Channel: Montana State University Library
Date: 2022-10-28

Each year, the Montana State University (MSU) Trout and Salmonid Lecture Series offers a free lecture event on the subject of trout and salmonid. On September 22, 2022, Bozeman, Montana attorney Jim Goetz presented “The waters belong to everyone: the Montana stream access cases.” The event took place at 7 p.m. in Cruzado Auditorium in Romney Hall on the MSU campus.

Goetz is a Bozeman attorney who was instrumental in passing Montana’s Stream Access Law, which protects public recreational use of Montana’s rivers and streams. His talk provided an historical overview of navigability issues in Montana and outlined the development of the seminal stream access cases on the Dearborn and Beaverhead Rivers. He also shared boyhood tales of fishing on the Madison and in the Tobacco Root mountains.

For information on the MSU Library’s Trout and Salmonid Collection, visit lib.montana.edu/trout/.

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