JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming wildlife managers don’t plan to capture a grizzly bear that attacked a hunter this week because the encounter appears to be a case of a sow bear protecting her cubs.

Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokesman Mark Gocke said Wednesday that the preliminary investigation is pointing to a surprise encounter and defensive reaction on the bear’s part.

Gocke says the Bridger-Teton National Forest area where the attack occurred has not been closed to the public because wildlife managers don’t believe the bear poses a danger.

James Moore, of Rock Springs, received injuries to his head and torso when he was attacked while hunting elk with two companions Monday morning in the Teton Wilderness.

Moore was listed in good condition at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

NAVAJO CANYON, Arizona (AP) — Authorities say a Utah child has died from a head injury after a boating accident near Navajo Canyon.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area officials say the accident occurred Sunday evening when a houseboat was trying to dock on a beach about 12 miles from Antelope Point Marina.

When the boat struck the beach, authorities say an adult fell on the 6-month-old boy.

The boat had 13 people on board at the time including several small children.

The injured child was given emergency first aid at the scene and transported to Page Hospital and then to Salt Lake City Children’s Hospital.

Authorities say the child died early Monday.

The name of the boy wasn’t immediately released but the family lives in Bluffdale, Utah.

The National Park Service is investigating the death.

IDAHO FALLS (AP) — The Idaho Transportation Department is considering the construction of overpasses that would provide safe crossings for wildlife over a stretch of U.S. Highway 20 near the state’s border with Montana.

The wildlife overpasses are in two of the four options the department has outlined for how it would use the $22 million slated to improve the 4-mile stretch of highway near Island Park.

The most comprehensive option calls for the construction of three wildlife overpasses with fencing along the roadway that would funnel animals into using the crossings.

While the department is still evaluating the cost and probability of the options, it has held public meetings to take input from area residents.

Project Manager Eric Verner said the preliminary comments from residents have placed emphasis on options that would help reduce the number of collisions between motorists and wildlife. He said 15 collisions with wildlife were reported to police during a four-year period, but the actual number of wrecks is likely higher because motorist don’t always report.

This stretch of road is in an area that’s a key crossing for deer, elk and moose as well as predators, Renee Seidler said, a transportation specialist for Idaho Fish and Game. She said the roadway is detrimental to wildlife in multiple ways including dividing animal populations.

While environmental groups have supported the wildlife overpasses, some groups that are rooted in conspiracy theories have led campaigns questioning the motives behind the wildlife overpasses.

GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Leaders of Native American tribes gathered this weekend to urge the U.S. government to rename a valley and a mountain in Yellowstone National Park.

They say the names are associated with a man who advocated killing Native Americans and another who did just that.

The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2fsd9jM) the tribal leaders delivered a petition Saturday to park officials noting their opposition to the names of Hayden Valley and Mount Doane.

U.S. Army Lt. Gustavus Doane participated in an 1870 massacre of 173 noncombatant Indians in Montana.

Ferdinand Hayden, whose explorations were a key element in the eventual creation of the park, called for exterminating American Indians who wouldn’t become farmers and ranchers.

Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Great Sioux Nation led a procession on horseback and on foot through the historic Roosevelt Arch to the park’s north entrance. There, they delivered the petition to the park’s deputy superintendent, Pat Kenney.

Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Great Sioux Nation will gather Saturday at Yellowstone’s North Entrance near Gardiner, Montana, tribal officials said Tuesday.

The tribes seek to change the name of Hayden Valley, a subalpine valley just north of Yellowstone Lake, to Buffalo Nations Valley. They want to change the name of Mount Doane, a 10,550-foot peak five miles east of the lake, to First People’s Mountain.

Efforts to change place names and remove monuments to controversial figures in U.S. history have gained momentum since white supremacists opposed to taking down a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee clashed in August with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Several Native American renaming efforts — some simply to erase racist terminology from maps — have been going on for years. In Wyoming, tribes seek to change Devils Tower, the name of an 870-foot volcanic mesa in the first U.S. national monument, to Bear Lodge.

Devils Tower is the name white settlers gave the feature. Bear Lodge is what the Lakota, Crow, Cheyenne and other tribes call the formation important if not sacred to their cultures.

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names oversees the renaming process.

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Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com

GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Leaders of Native American tribes gathered this weekend to urge the U.S. government to rename a valley and a mountain in Yellowstone National Park.

They say the names are associated with a man who advocated killing Native Americans and another who did just that.

The Billings Gazette reports the tribal leaders delivered a petition Saturday to park officials noting their opposition to the names of Hayden Valley and Mount Doane.

U.S. Army Lt. Gustavus Doane participated in an 1870 massacre of 173 noncombatant Indians in Montana.

Ferdinand Hayden, whose explorations were a key element in the eventual creation of the park, called for exterminating American Indians who wouldn’t become farmers and ranchers.

Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Great Sioux Nation led a procession on horseback and on foot through the historic Roosevelt Arch to the park’s north entrance. There, they delivered the petition to the park’s deputy superintendent, Pat Kenney.

Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Great Sioux Nation will gather Saturday at Yellowstone’s North Entrance near Gardiner, Montana, tribal officials said Tuesday.

The tribes seek to change the name of Hayden Valley, a subalpine valley just north of Yellowstone Lake, to Buffalo Nations Valley. They want to change the name of Mount Doane, a 10,550-foot peak five miles east of the lake, to First People’s Mountain.

Efforts to change place names and remove monuments to controversial figures in U.S. history have gained momentum since white supremacists opposed to taking down a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee clashed in August with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Several Native American renaming efforts — some simply to erase racist terminology from maps — have been going on for years. In Wyoming, tribes seek to change Devils Tower, the name of an 870-foot volcanic mesa in the first U.S. national monument, to Bear Lodge.

Devils Tower is the name white settlers gave the feature. Bear Lodge is what the Lakota, Crow, Cheyenne and other tribes call the formation important if not sacred to their cultures.

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names oversees the renaming process.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say the wife of a southwestern Idaho man whose fringe run for Idaho governor resulted in a Republican primary debate that drew national attention died due to dehydration.

Shoshone County Sheriff Mike Gunderson tells the Idaho Statesman (http://bit.ly/2y2lm5c) in a story on Wednesday that an autopsy confirmed the cause of death in August of 74-year-old Virginia Bayes.

Her husband, 79-year-old Walt Bayes of Emmett, was rescued in the area by a crew battling a wildfire.

Gunderson says the couple was camping but got separated when Walt Bayes went to get water and his wife disappeared.

Gunderson says Walt Bayes searched for her for five or six days.

Walt Bayes and another fringe candidate named Harley Brown stole the show from Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and then-state Sen. Russ Fulcher in a 2014 primary debate viewed as over the top even by Gem State standards.

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Information from: Idaho Statesman, http://www.idahostatesman.com

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A grizzly bear that has been raiding backcountry campsites and chasing campers in Yellowstone National Park since last year has been captured and killed.

The National Park Service says biologists killed the immature, male grizzly on Sept. 8 after their nonlethal attempts to alter its behavior failed.

In 2016, the bear entered campsites in the Heart Lake area of Yellowstone and destroyed tents, sleeping bags and sleeping pads. National Park Service staff tried unsuccessfully to haze the bear with bean bag rounds, rubber bullets and cracker shells.

Last month, the bear forced a group of three backpackers out of their campsite near Heart Lake and consumed all of their food. In response, Yellowstone officials closed the area to backcountry camping and made the decision to catch and kill it.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A young osprey tangled in twine atop a nesting pole in southwest Idaho has been cut loose and freed by workers with a utility company.

Idaho Power in a news release Tuesday says employees Chad Owens and Jeremy Torkelson on Sept. 3 ascended to the nest near Swan Falls Dam in a bucket on a long arm extending from a truck.

The stand-alone nesting pole with no powerlines is part of the company’s program to help raptors.

Rodriguez says an angler alerted Idaho Power after spotting the trapped bird unable to leave the nest while the parents circled overhead.

The company sent a line crew. The men wrapped the young bird in a shirt and removed the twine from its talons, and the osprey immediately flew away.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The federal government is looking to keep over $20,000 seized during a drug bust in Yellowstone National Park.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hambrick filed a civil forfeiture complaint Sept. 6 seeking to obtain the $20,337 currently in the hands of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

According to court documents, the money was seized July 8 after a Yellowstone National Park ranger stopped a vehicle with two men inside for speeding where officials later found marijuana. Both men were sentenced to probation for simple possession of a controlled substance.

According to court documents, Jacob Dotson, says $11,000 of the money was his. Dustin Alvis says $10,000 belong to him.

Hambrick says in the complaint that the money was intended to be used to purchase drugs. The men will be able to contest the forfeiture.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park has recorded its busiest August, in part because of the solar eclipse.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Yellowstone tallied 916,166 visits last month, marking the first time the month surpassed 900,000 visits in the park’s history. That’s a 9 percent increase over the total in August 2016.

Park officials say the eclipse brought more visitors, especially in the days before and after. A glut of people passed through on Aug. 22, the day after the eclipse.

Yellowstone has counted 3,232,708 visits this year, lagging behind the record-breaking 2016 by about 36,000.