SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A young mountain lion has been shot and killed by a police officer it charged after being tranquilized in a residential area of Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Brandon Shearer said the officer shot the cougar twice early Monday morning when it came within six feet.

He says an ambulance crew spotted the mountain lion at about 3:15 a.m. Monday. Police and state wildlife officials arrived later to tranquilize the male cougar who was hunkered down in bushes.

Riley Peck of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says the 70-pound cougar likely came down from the nearby mountains in search for his own territory after being set loose by its mother. He says young mountain lions live alone until they take mates and have cubs. He was likely 1-2 years old.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A 60-year-old man has died after falling from a raft while fishing on the Snake River in northwestern Wyoming.

Teton County Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Carr tells the Jackson Hole News & Guide (bit.ly/2ucY0Ym) that the man was not wearing a life jacket when he fell into the water Sunday afternoon between Wilson and South Park — a stretch of river that is accessible only by boat.

Other rafters found him downstream, but efforts to resuscitate him failed.

The man’s name hasn’t been released.

His was the third death on the Snake River in Wyoming in a month. Twenty-one-year-old Oliver Woodward of Atlanta died after being thrown from a raft on July 4. His body was found a week later. And 48-year-old Christopher Chapman of Pocatello, Idaho drowned on July 8.

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

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game say they have shot and killed a mountain lion in south-central Idaho.

The agency announced Monday the female big cat was one of two mountain lions that had killed several domestic cats and a dog in the past week near Oakley.

Fish and Game officers have set up live traps to capture the second mountain lion.

In Idaho, mountain lions posing an immediate threat to a person or property can be killed without a proper license tag.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has proposed putting bounties on problem wolves and allowing hunters to lure wolves with bait.

The proposals come from the department’s Wolf Depredation Control Board, which has discussed how best to take action against the high number of wolves killing livestock and big game, the Capital Press reported Monday.

The board was established by the Legislature in 2014 to manage wolf-controlling funds. The board consists of representatives from the Department of Fish and Game, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, the ranching industry and the general public.

“The use of sportsmen who pay for the opportunity to hunt or trap is traditionally our best method of managing wildlife populations,” Fish and Game Director Virgil Morris said.

Wolf-related livestock killings are at an all-time low, but federal funding to programs aimed at killing problem wolves has been cut, leading to the state, ranchers and sportsmen paying the bill, Morris said.

Idaho Wildlife Services killed 75 wolves in 2015 out of a statewide population of at least 786, according to a report. There were 35 cattle and 125 sheep killings that year.

Hunters, most of whom were pursuing other game, killed 139 wolves in 2016. Trappers got another 131.

Bear hunters who use bait are allowed to shoot any wolves attracted to the bait if they also hold a wolf tag, Morris said.

The proposed wolf bait rule, which must be approved by the Legislature and the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, would encourage “more wolf hunters to go out in the field and just pursue a wolf, like bears,” Morris said.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Part of a popular road into Grand Teton National Park is being temporarily closed for dust reduction.

A 2-mile stretch of Moose-Wilson Road will be off limits from 4 a.m. Tuesday through 8 a.m. Thursday so road crews can spray a chemical to reduce dust.

The Jackson Hole News & Guide says this is the first of three applications scheduled for this year for the winding road at the base of Teton Range.

Officials plan to pave the dirt section of the road but construction won’t begin for another year.

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

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Phoenix, a 5-year-old golden eagle, leaps from perch to perch in his enclosure. He does it with a brace on his left foot.

On June 21, 2012, when Phoenix was a few months old, he was critically injured in the Saratoga Springs Utah Dump Fire. Too young to fly and escape the danger, Phoenix suffered third-degree burns.

On June 1, a few weeks before the fire, Kent Keller, who is licensed in Utah to put tracking bands on eagles, marked Phoenix. Keller, a Utah native and wildlife photographer, started studying golden eagles in the wild in 1997 — the third-longest study of these birds in the world, the Standard Examiner reported.

When the fire was finished, Keller came back to the nest on June 28, assuming he would retrieve the band from a dead eagle. “When I saw the size of (the fire) on the news … I was pretty sure it had got that nest,” Keller said.

Instead Keller found a badly charred, but alive Phoenix.

After being granted permission to retrieve the golden eagle chick, Keller took Phoenix to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.

“If it had not been for him, Phoenix would have perished,” said Buz Marthaler, co-founder of the rehabilitation center.

Marthaler and other team members at the center began working to save Phoenix’s life. Due to the uniqueness of the bird’s situation, much of the treatment was experimental.

“No one had ever seen an avian victim burned like this that survived,” Marthaler said. “The protocols we were using were human protocols for burn victims.”

The initial treatment included application of an antibacterial salve and hydrotherapy, Marthaler said.

After several years of rehabilitation, and Phoenix contracting and being treated for West Nile Virus in 2014, the center is keeping the golden eagle as an educational bird.

Keller said he is disappointed to see Phoenix unable to return to the wild, but he hopes the children and adults who observe him up close will be touched by his story.

“Phoenix has a story that really needs to be told. He’s an eagle Smokey the Bear, if not even more intense than that with everything he has been through,” Marthaler said.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Wildlife managers have killed a black bear after a string of encounters with people at a popular Idaho recreation area, including one in which a camper awoke with her foot in the bear’s mouth.

Over the past three weeks, the bear rubbed up against a woman reading a book near a stream and bothered campers as they slept, state Department of Fish and Game spokesman Kelton Hatch said. The woman who had her foot in the bear’s mouth was awakened by the pressure, but she wasn’t injured.

In each instance, the bear was frightened away when campers yelled, Hatch said. But it was clearly habituated to human food and contact.

Department workers trapped the bear Saturday at a campground near the Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters north of Ketchum, and took it to a different site to be euthanized.

Hatch said people should keep their campsites clean and store food in vehicles or high in a tree.

The agency said more information about bear safety is available at the website Be Bear Aware.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Wildlife managers have killed a black bear after a string of encounters with people at a popular Idaho recreation area, including one in which a camper awoke with her foot in the bear’s mouth.

Over the past three weeks, the bear rubbed up against a woman reading a book near a stream and bothered campers as they slept, state Department of Fish and Game spokesman Kelton Hatch said. The woman who had her foot in the bear’s mouth was awakened by the pressure, but she wasn’t injured.

In each instance, the bear was frightened away when campers yelled, Hatch said. But it was clearly habituated to human food and contact.

Department workers trapped the bear Saturday at a campground near the Sawtooth National Recreation Area headquarters north of Ketchum, and took it to a different site to be euthanized.

Hatch said people should keep their campsites clean and store food in vehicles or high in a tree.

The agency said more information about bear safety is available at the website Be Bear Aware.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Officials with Montana’s Glacier National Park say a visitor who was taking photographs of the scenery fell into a creek, was swept into a culvert and plunged off a steep cliff to his death.

Park officials said in a statement Monday that 26-year-old Robert Durbin of Corvallis, Montana, died Saturday.

They say Durbin was taking photos along Haystack Creek next to the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which is known for its dramatic scenery and vertigo-inducing heights.

He fell into the creek and was washed through a culvert that goes beneath the road and empties into a 100-foot (30-meter) drop down a cliff.

The popular road was closed to traffic for about an hour while rangers and rescuers found and recovered the man’s body.

Glacier officials say the death isn’t considered suspicious. Falls are a leading cause of death in the park.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Officials with Montana’s Glacier National Park say a visitor who was taking photographs of the scenery fell into a creek, was swept into a culvert and plunged off a steep cliff to his death.

Park officials said in a statement Monday that 26-year-old Robert Durbin of Corvallis, Montana, died Saturday.

They say Durbin was taking photos along Haystack Creek next to the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which is known for its dramatic scenery and vertigo-inducing heights.

He fell into the creek and was washed through a culvert that goes beneath the road and empties into a 100-foot (30-meter) drop down a cliff.

The popular road was closed to traffic for about an hour while rangers and rescuers found and recovered the man’s body.

Glacier officials say the death isn’t considered suspicious. Falls are a leading cause of death in the park.