PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a recently retired Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputy has died in a river rafting accident.

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook Monday that Deputy Greg Senior died over the weekend in Idaho.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://goo.gl/NW2SBf ) Sheriff Craig Roberts had no other details about what happened.

Senior worked with the sheriff’s office for 27 years, serving as a corrections officer and also in the civil division, where deputies work to process and serve court orders.

Roberts says the hardworking Senior was nearly 7 feet tall and often called a “gentle giant” around the jail..

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Information from: The Oregonian/OregonLive, http://www.oregonlive.com

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming outfitter and hunting guide has been cited for alleged cruelty to animals after a witness said he tied down a horse for at least three hours before the horse died.

The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports (http://bit.ly/2wxXDwA) the Teton County Sheriff’s Department issued the citation Friday to Forest Stearns of Wilson.

No one answered the phone at Stearns’ business Saturday. No home phone number could be found.

Sheriff Jim Whalen says Stearns told deputies the horse was tied for 60 to 90 minutes because Stearns was going to shoe it.

Whalen didn’t release the name of the witness who contradicted Stearns.

The horse died Aug. 8.

Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor, with penalties of up to $750 in fines and up to six months in jail.

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Information from: Jackson Hole (Wyo.) News And Guide, http://www.jhnewsandguide.com

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A stretch of the Gibbon River and its headwater lakes are being poisoned so Yellowstone National Park can remove non-native fish and create a refuge for west slope cutthroat trout and river-running grayling.

The two species, both native to the larger Madison River drainage in the park, are being reintroduced as part of the effort to help flora and fauna of Yellowstone adapt to the warming climate, Senior Fisheries Biologist Todd Koel said.

Warm water in the height of summer closes down waters to fishing on the 8,000-foot Yellowstone plateau with some regularity.

“We look at this as being some of the best habitat that remains for sure in the park, but really in the region, to ensure that west slope cutthroat trout persist in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” Koel told the Jackson Hole News & Guide.

The Gibbon River is considered a good candidate to support native cutthroat trout and grayling without competition from non-native brook and rainbow trout because of the natural barrier at Gibbon Falls.

West slope cutthroat trout were extirpated from all of Yellowstone except for a tiny stretch of a Grayling Creek tributary called Last Chance Creek. They’ve since been reintroduced into Grayling Creek, parts of Specimen Creek and Goose Lake, and the plan is to return the native cutthroat to Cougar Creek in the future.

Switching the Gibbon River from a haven for exotic to native trout begins with releasing rotenone, a fish poison, in Grebe, Wolf and Ice lakes and 18 miles of stream and river above Virginia Cascades. That work kicked off this month and will continue through the end of September.

Trails and campsites within the upper Gibbon drainage will be closed, including Ice Lake from Aug. 21 to Sept. 30 and the Grebe and Wolf lake area from Sept. 5 to 30.

The project will treat 18 miles of stream and 232 acres of standing water.

Historically, the only fish found in the Gibbon drainage above the falls were mottled sculpin. That changed in 1889, when Yellowstone rangers released rainbow trout in one of the first non-native fish introductions in park history, Koel said. Brook trout were later added to the system.

Rainbows are a particular threat to cutthroat because they readily interbreed, tainting the gene pool.

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Visitors at a southwest Idaho lake shouldn’t enter the water due to toxic algae.

Southwest District Health tells the Idaho Press-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2wyaA9F) in a story on Saturday that high concentrations of blue-green algae at Lake Lowell led to the health advisory.

Officials say coming in contact with the algae can cause nausea, vomiting, liver damage and other problems.

Anglers are encouraged to clean and rinse their catch with uncontaminated water.

Lake Lowell is part of the Dear Flat National Wildlife Refuge that’s managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Information from: Idaho Press-Tribune, http://www.idahopress.com

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Grand Teton National Park rangers are investigating the illegal use of a drone that buzzed a grizzly bear and her two cubs in the northwest Wyoming park.

The incident occurred Wednesday evening.

Park spokeswoman Denise Germann tells the Jackson Hole News & Guide (http://bit.ly/2vvLzrg ) that rangers and others saw the drone hover close to the grizzlies.

But whoever was piloting the drone managed to retrieve it and flee without being seen.

Drone use is illegal on National Park Service property, including Grand Teton and Yellowstone.

Illegal drone use was also reported in Grand Teton during the total solar eclipse Monday, but Germann was unaware of anyone being cited.

She says there were instances of drone pilots preparing their drones for flight but being confronted by rangers before they launched.

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Information from: Jackson Hole (Wyo.) News And Guide, http://www.jhnewsandguide.com

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a gallon of dish soap and plenty of rope helped them rescue a woman stuck for nearly 12 hours in a narrow slot canyon in the Utah wilderness.

Sheriff’s deputies say the 24-year-old woman became wedged so tightly in Zero Gravity Canyon while on a hiking trip with her husband Wednesday afternoon that she could hardly breathe.

Crews carefully lowered rescuers into the canyon, but the first the first rope system they rigged up to haul her out caused her more pain.

Rescuers then brought in the dish soap and wriggled her out with a see-saw motion.

She was flown her to a hospital early Thursday morning. The canyon is about 150 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The Emery County Sheriff’s Office says this is the second rescue of the summer in the canyon.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Canadian mining company says it’s reached an agreement with conservation groups to protect two Montana trout streams and hundreds of acres of land used by migrating elk from Yellowstone National Park.

Representatives of Kinross Gold Corp., Trout Unlimited and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation planned to formally announce the agreement Thursday in Jardine, Montana.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, the members of the state’s congressional delegation and Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt were scheduled to attend.

The conservation agreement includes 549 acres at the site of the former Mineral Hill Mine, which closed in 2001. It also includes protections for Pine Creek and Bear Creek.

The announcement comes as local residents and businesses are trying to stop two new gold mines proposed in the same area north of Yellowstone.

HORSESHOE BEND, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man has died in a boating accident on the Payette River in southwest Idaho.

KTVB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2uDA29w ) that William Navarro was floating with his girlfriend down the river in a catamaran-style raft Friday night in Boise County, between Horseshoe Bend and Banks.

Boise County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Anthony says Navarro fell out of the raft when they hit rapids. He had trouble getting back in before another set of rapids.

Anthony says both Navarro and his girlfriend were wearing life jackets. However, Navarro removed his life jacket after having trouble getting back onto the raft. Later, he was unable to get the life jacket back on before hitting more rapids.

Anthony says his girlfriend tried to help him but he went under water.

The Horseshoe Bend Fire Department’s water rescue team found him near Beehive Bend. Medical personnel weren’t able to revive him.

HORSESHOE BEND, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man has died in a boating accident on the Payette River in southwest Idaho.

KTVB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2uDA29w ) that William Navarro was floating with his girlfriend down the river in a catamaran-style raft Friday night in Boise County, between Horseshoe Bend and Banks.

Boise County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Anthony says Navarro fell out of the raft when they hit rapids. He had trouble getting back in before another set of rapids.

Anthony says both Navarro and his girlfriend were wearing life jackets. However, Navarro removed his life jacket after having trouble getting back onto the raft. Later, he was unable to get the life jacket back on before hitting more rapids.

Anthony says his girlfriend tried to help him but he went under water.

The Horseshoe Bend Fire Department’s water rescue team found him near Beehive Bend. Medical personnel weren’t able to revive him.

HORSESHOE BEND, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man has died in a boating accident on the Payette River in southwest Idaho.

KTVB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2uDA29w ) that William Navarro was floating with his girlfriend down the river in a catamaran-style raft Friday night in Boise County, between Horseshoe Bend and Banks.

Boise County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Anthony says Navarro fell out of the raft when they hit rapids. He had trouble getting back in before another set of rapids.

Anthony says both Navarro and his girlfriend were wearing life jackets. However, Navarro removed his life jacket after having trouble getting back onto the raft. Later, he was unable to get the life jacket back on before hitting more rapids.

Anthony says his girlfriend tried to help him but he went under water.

The Horseshoe Bend Fire Department’s water rescue team found him near Beehive Bend. Medical personnel weren’t able to revive him.