WHITE BIRD, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho County Sheriff’s office says a body found in the Salmon River on Saturday belongs to a man who went missing after a car crash in May.

A boater found the body downriver from Hammer Creek, and then took Sheriff Doug Giddings, Sgt. Justin Scuka and Idaho County Coroner Cody Funke to the location so they could recover the remains.

The sheriff’s office said Monday that the coroner has identified the man as 60-year-old Kenny Sawn, who went missing on May 28 after the vehicle he was in crashed into the Little Salmon River.

TROY, Mont. (AP) — A black bear shot and killed after tearing down a tent is likely the same bear a woman found standing on her kitchen table a week earlier.

The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/2tsXokS ) the bear was shot Tuesday by a deputy who had responded to a call for help from people staying in a nearby cabin.

They had been awakened to find two black bears ripping through a tent no one was inside.

The deputy killed the black bear and the other bear eventually left the scene.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks grizzly bear management specialist Kim Annis says a black bear had pushed its way through a screened window at a cabin almost a week before. The woman inside heard the noise and found the bear standing on her kitchen table.

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Grand Teton National Park officials have killed a 4-year-old black bear after it approached three different groups of people, destroyed a tent and walked on a person’s porch.

Officials began looking for the bear on June 21 and trapped it on Tuesday.

Rangers and biologists determined the same bear was involved in each interaction based on photos and direct observations.

Officials say the bear was habituated to humans. Food-storage violations are not associated with these incidents.

No one was injured by the bear.

GARDINER, Montana (AP) — The investigation into the death of a famed Yellowstone National Park grizzly bear killed by an elk hunter in late 2015 determined that the bear was shot three times at close range with a .30 caliber rifle.

The bear known to admirers as Scarface was killed near Gardiner, Montana, outside Yellowstone at night.

No charges were filed against the unidentified hunter.

The Billings Gazette reports that documents from the investigation were obtained recently by two Montana women through the Freedom of Information Act. One of the women, Kat Brekken, is with the National Wolfwatcher Coalition.

Brekken contends the death of Scarface could have been avoided if the hunter had been carrying bear spray and had practiced common sense.

The hunter told the investigators he wouldn’t have done anything differently.

KEMMERER, Wyoming (AP) — The star of an Outdoor Channel hunting show has been fined $23,000 and given a suspended jail sentence for poaching in Wyoming.

The incident occurred in October on Spring Creek Ranch, a property owned by the “Wildgame Nation” star, Billy A. Busbice Jr.

Busbice was caught when Kemmerer Game Warden Chris Baird was told by other hunters of an odd hunting incident.

The hunters told Baird they saw a man filming a hunter who shot two elk.

Baird said he met with Busbice, who admitted to having accidently killed a calf elk while trying to harvest a large bull.

Busbice had all of his game and fish license privileges revoked for two years, including in his home state of Louisiana.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who was found dead in a lake just north of Yellowstone National Park.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports 67-year-old Jeffrey Barr, of Burbank, California, drowned after he entered Hebgen Lake in an apparent attempt to retrieve a pontoon boat that had blown away.

Searchers began looking for the man Thursday afternoon after receiving a report of a vehicle parked in a day-use area. Investigators found the pontoon boat beached nearby.

Barr’s body was found Friday about 300 feet from the shore near his campsite.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A southwestern Montana man was hospitalized after rescuing his 5-year-old son from the Gallatin River.

Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin says the Bozeman man, a woman and three children were rafting at about 6 p.m. Sunday when the boy ended up in the water. Someone called 911 to report seeing the boy floating down the river wearing floaties on his arms and screaming.

The father was able to catch up with the boy and get to an island. The woman and two children, including an infant, were able to make it to shore.

Rescuers got the boy to shore but Gootkin says the father was in critical condition without a pulse in his wrist. He was flown to a Bozeman hospital. There was no word on his condition on Monday.

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is taking steps toward turning part of its bison trap at the northern edge of the park into a certified brucellosis quarantine facility.

Park officials have been talking since at least April with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state livestock officials about upgrades they could make to the Stephens Creek Facility, as well as testing requirements needed to certify bison as brucellosis-free, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported (https://goo.gl/uncnTU ) Sunday.

The move is meant to eventually get the 24 male bison at the trap to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation without first transferring them to quarantine corrals at Corwin Springs.

Male bison must be quarantined for a year before they can be deemed free of the disease, which is feared by the livestock industry because it causes cattle to abort their offspring.

Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk said sending bison to Corwin Springs would cost more than quarantining them at Stephens Creek, even with the facility upgrades it will require.

“I don’t think the cost is going to be that high,” he said. “We feel like we’re in a better place in terms of doing the research we want to do on these animals.”

Work on the facility has not started because the park is waiting for the Montana Department of Livestock and the federal agriculture department to provide specific requirements. Marty Zaluski, Montana’s state veterinarian, said he is working on finalizing the rules.

More than half of Yellowstone bison are believed to have been exposed to the disease. There has been no documented case of bison transmitting the disease to cattle in the wild but that fear has driven efforts to control the Yellowstone population and limit where bison are allowed.

A 17-year-old management plan calls for the population to be culled to about 3,000 bison in the park, and the numbers are managed through hunting and shipping the animals to slaughter.

Quarantining bison is seen as a way to reduce the number slaughtered each year and to establish more bison herds around the U.S.

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Information from: Bozeman Daily Chronicle, http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise officials say they are closing several popular city ponds after finding high levels of E. coli bacteria in the water.

According to the city, Boise public works employees discovered the bacteria at Quinn’s Pond and all ponds at Esther Simplot Park during a routine weekly test. As of Wednesday, Central District Health has not received reports of illness from the contamination.

City staff is currently trying to detect the source of the E. coli bacteria contamination.

Quinn’s Pond and Esther Simplot Park regularly draws hundreds of visitors during the weekends.