BURLEY — Shoshone Falls will soon give one more show before going dry in August.

The Bureau of Reclamation is releasing water from dams on the Snake River above Shoshone Falls because heavy rains since Saturday maxed out the Upper Snake River system. The result will be 10,000 cubic feet per second of water over the falls for about a week, said Brian Stevens, a civil engineer with the bureau in Heyburn.

Several inches of rain fell since Saturday morning at Glade Creek (2.5 inches) and Snake River Station (2.1 inches), both above Jackson Lake in Wyoming, a bureau press release said. About 1.65 inches fell at Valley View, above Island Park.

That’s a big watershed,” Stevens said Tuesday. “Just a couple inches of rain means a lot of water.”

Jackson Lake and Palisades Reservoir are large lakes that were able to contain a lot of the runoff, he said.

“At 97 percent capacity, Palisades still had a lot of storage left.”

But Grassy Lake, Henrys Lake, Island Park, Ririe Reservoir and American Falls Reservoir are 100 percent of capacity, according to the bureau.

On Monday, the bureau planned to increase discharge from 16,200 cubic feet per second to 19,000 cfs at American Falls Dam, and from 14,900 cfs to 15,400 cfs at Minidoka Dam.

Closer to home, Milner Reservoir was 83 percent full as of Tuesday. The bureau increased discharge at Milner to 7,500 at noon and will increase it to 10,000 Wednesday, Stevens said.

The bureau looks about 10 days ahead to plan for flood control, he said. Most of the rain recently forecasted has fallen, but small pockets of rainfall continue.

BOISE — Multiple seasons of elk poaching have caught up to two men who now face jail time, hunting license revocations and thousands of dollars in fines and restitution.

In September 2016, Jonathan Blaschka, 36, and his companion Charles McCall, 41, both of Mountain Home, gunned down two bull elk during an archery-only season near Yellow Pine, Idaho. This, despite the fact that both men held valid archery elk tags for the area. Blaschka returned to the Yellow Pine area in September 2017 and used a rifle to poach a large bull elk and a cow elk, again during the archery-only season.

Using information obtained via the Citizens Against Poaching hotline, Fish and Game Conservation Officer Jon Hunter and a team launched an investigation that led to the seizure of a firearm, cellphone, elk antlers and elk meat stored at Blaschka’s residence. In one text message found on Blaschka’s cellphone, he boasted of shooting multiple elk, wounding another and shooting until he ran out of bullets.

Earlier this month, Blaschka appeared in a Valley County courtroom for formal sentencing by Judge Lamont Berecz on seven wildlife violations including two counts of poaching a bull elk, two counts of possession of an illegally taken bull elk, poaching a cow elk, possessing an illegally taken cow elk and using an elk tag belonging to another person.

Blaschka was sentenced to 30 days in jail — to be served during the next four months — and was ordered to pay nearly $9,000 in fines, court costs, processing fees and restitution. His hunting privileges were suspended for four years, and he also received two years of unsupervised probation.

McCall was fined $1,380 and lost his hunting privileges for one year.

Conservation Officer Hunter credits the case to a concerned, anonymous citizen who brought the suspected poaching to the attention of Fish and Game.

“With an average patrol area of over a thousand square miles, Idaho conservation officers cannot be everywhere at once,” Hunter said in a statement. “We depend on ethical hunters to be our eyes and ears in the field and encourage them to report illegal wildlife activities.”

In addition to the CAP hotline, persons with information regarding suspected wildlife crimes may call the Fish and Game Nampa office at 208-465-8465 or the Fish and Game McCall office at 208-634-8137 weekdays and the Idaho State Police at 208-846-7550 on weekends.