COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The driver of a boat involved in a fatal crash on Lake Coeur d’Alene last year is facing a second lawsuit by one of the three victims’ parents.

Dennis Magner, 51, has been sued by the parents of 21-year-old Justin Honken, who was killed in the crash, The Coeur d’Alene Press reported (http://bit.ly/2sBGAWl ).

Magner was sued in May by the mother of 21-year-old Caitlin Breeze, who also died in the crash. The third victim was 34-year-old Justin Luhr.

The lawsuits claim Magner was drunk during the July 2016 crash, in which he is accused of driving his boat into a stationary boat that the three victims were on.

The bodies of Honken, Breeze and Luhr were recovered from Lake Coeur d’Alene several days after the crash.

Andrew Bohrnsen, Magner’s attorney, didn’t return a call from The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Magner and the four other people on the boat with him suffered minor injuries.

Following an investigation by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office that concluded earlier this year, the case was forwarded to the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office. No criminal charges were filed against Magner or members of his crew as of Tuesday.

Passengers on Magner’s boat initially lied to authorities regarding the identity of the driver. Three of the occupants, however, changed their story several days after the wreck, telling investigators Magner was the driver of the vessel. They told dispatchers Luhr’s boat was “completely blacked out and not moving.”

The Honkens’ lawsuit asks for more than $10,000 in damages.

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Information from: Coeur d’Alene Press, http://www.cdapress.com

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Residents outside Yellowstone National Park are opposing plans to start seaplane tours of the park and surrounding area this summer.

Yellowstone Seaplanes has applied for a permit to operate from Montana’s Hebgen Lake just outside Yellowstone’s western boundary.

Gallatin County planner Megan Gibson tells the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2rCZmv4 ) that her department has received about 140 letters in opposition.

Lynda Caine, the owner of the fly fishing lodge Firehole Ranch, is one of the lake’s residents who is against the plan. She says people who are fishing don’t want to be buzzed by a sea plane.

Yellowstone Seaplanes’ website advertises half-hour to two-hour tours to begin this summer. It would operate from an existing marina.

Gallatin County commissioners will take up the application Thursday in West Yellowstone.

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

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is reopening access to a grove of ancient cedars in northern Idaho that had been closed following a 2015 wildfire.

The agency says Settler’s Grove north of Wallace will open Saturday. The area includes the popular Settler’s Grove Trail.

The wildfire burned through the area that contains cedar trees experts say are hundreds of years old.

Officials closed the area after the wildfire due the danger to visitors of falling snags and to allow the area to recover.

Officials say the burned area should still be avoided on windy days as partially burned trees can be unstable.

CHOTEAU, Mont. (AP) — A search is being conducted for a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man who has gone missing in a Montana wilderness area.

Teton County Sheriff Keith Van Setten says that searchers are looking for Eric Hellmuth, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in a remote section of the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Van Setten says a backcountry outfitter reported that Hellmuth walked away from camp in the Sun River drainage at about 2 p.m. Monday and had not been seen since. Authorities were called at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

He says Hellmuth has some outdoor experience but not much mountain experience.

The search is concentrated near the river confluence with Cabin Creek, about 30 miles northwest of Augusta.

About 15 searchers are involved from Teton County Search and Rescue, the Forest Service and outfitters.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are installing barriers in front of boat launches in an attempt to prevent invasive mussels recently discovered in Montana from spreading to the park and into the Columbia River Basin.

Invasive mussel larvae have been found in Montana’s Tiber Reservoir and are suspected in Canyon Ferry Reservoir. They can spread quickly, clogging pipes, displacing native species and causing other environmental problems.

The moveable barriers will be installed at launches at Yellowstone and Lewis lakes to keep uninspected boats from entering the lakes when check stations and entry points aren’t staffed in the early mornings and at night, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reported (http://bit.ly/2rCu4bM). They will keep uninspected boats from entering the lakes when check stations and entry points are not staffed.

“We don’t want to be known as the park that allowed zebra mussels to enter the Columbia Basin,” Yellowstone fisheries supervisor Todd Koel said.

The Columbia River Basin is the network of waterways from Canada to Wyoming and across the Pacific Northwest that drains into the river that flows into the ocean.

Yellowstone rules require that all watercraft are inspected. Park officials use high-temperature pressure washers to make sure that vegetation, animals and debris are removed from boats before they arrive at boat launches.

Most vessels used in the park’s waters come from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, according to boater registration data.

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

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are installing barriers in front of boat launches in an attempt to prevent invasive mussels recently discovered in Montana from spreading to the park and into the Columbia River Basin.

Invasive mussel larvae have been found in Montana’s Tiber Reservoir and are suspected in Canyon Ferry Reservoir. They can spread quickly, clogging pipes, displacing native species and causing other environmental problems.

The moveable barriers will be installed at launches at Yellowstone and Lewis lakes to keep uninspected boats from entering the lakes when check stations and entry points aren’t staffed in the early mornings and at night, the Jackson Hole News and Guide reported. They will keep uninspected boats from entering the lakes when check stations and entry points are not staffed.

“We don’t want to be known as the park that allowed zebra mussels to enter the Columbia Basin,” Yellowstone fisheries supervisor Todd Koel said.

The Columbia River Basin is the network of waterways from Canada to Wyoming and across the Pacific Northwest that drains into the river that flows into the ocean.

Yellowstone rules require that all watercraft are inspected. Park officials use high-temperature pressure washers to make sure that vegetation, animals and debris are removed from boats before they arrive at boat launches.

Most vessels used in the park’s waters come from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, according to boater registration data.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A swarm of earthquakes in the northwestern part of Yellowstone National Park this week continued into Friday and was punctuated with a magnitude 4.4 quake Thursday evening.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake occurred at 6:48 p.m., in a backcountry area of Yellowstone National Park, about 8 miles (12.8 kilometers) northeast of West Yellowstone, Montana. The swarm of about 30 earthquakes of magnitude 2 and larger began Monday.

The West Yellowstone Police Department says the earthquake was felt in the town that borders the park, but there were no reports of damage.

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations said the quake was part of “an energetic sequence” of about 30 earthquakes magnitude 2 and larger in the area. Thursday’s quake was the largest to occur in Yellowstone since a 4.8 magnitude quake in March 2014.

Earthquakes occur frequently in and around Yellowstone.

In 1959, the Hebgen Lake earthquake near Yellowstone in Montana killed 28 people.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — An earthquake shook a backcountry area in the northwest part of Yellowstone National Park on Thursday evening.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the preliminary 4.5 magnitude quake occurred in a backcountry area at 6:48 p.m., about 8 miles northeast of West Yellowstone, Montana.

The West Yellowstone Police Department says the earthquake was felt in the town that borders the park but there were no reports of damage.

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations said the quake was part of “an energetic sequence” of about 30 earthquakes in the area that began on Monday. Thursday’s quake was the largest to occur in Yellowstone since a 4.8 magnitude quake in March 2014.

Earthquakes occur frequently in and around Yellowstone.

In 1959, the Hebgen Lake earthquake near Yellowstone in Montana killed 28 people.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A kayak guide in his first season on the job in Yellowstone National Park has died while trying to rescue a park visitor who capsized on Yellowstone Lake.

Timothy Hayden Ryan Conant, 23, of Salt Lake City died Wednesday in the West Thumb area of the lake, according to the National Park Service.

Conant was among three guides on a kayaking excursion with a group of nine tourists.

Park rangers found Conant in the water and worked to revive him, but he was pronounced dead before he could be transported by helicopter to a hospital.

Park officials say the client whom Conant attempted to save was rescued by other guides in the group and was treated for hypothermia at a park clinic.

The incident is under investigation.

Yellowstone spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said the incident occurred about 400 yards off the west shore of the lake.

There was no unusual weather at the time of the incident, which occurred in the late afternoon when the lake often can become rough because of wind, Warthin said.

Warthin said the average year-round temperature of the lake is 43 degrees. It’s likely cooler now because Yellowstone has just come out of its winter season. Some areas of the park received snow earlier this week.

The National Park Service was not releasing the name of the tourist involved, she said.

Conant worked for O.A.R.S., a company based out of Angels Camp, California, that has offered non-motorized boat tours in Yellowstone under a permit since 1996.

The company issued a statement late Thursday saying that Conant will be remembered as a hero by trying to save a 62-year-old client. It said Conant’s kayak overturned during the rescue and he “spent a considerable amount of time in the cold water.”

Steve Markle, a spokesman for the company, said he understood that this was Conant’s first season working as a kayak guide after working at Utah ski resorts over the previous few years. Conant was originally from Anchorage, Alaska, and had moved to Utah to attend college, he said.

Markle declined to comment about the incident because it was under investigation.

But he said the company was devastated by Conant’s death and suspended its daily kayaking trips in Yellowstone through the weekend.

“Right now all of our efforts are really focused on making sure we assist Tim’s family and friends in any way we can,” Markle said.

Max Pelosi, director of the Jackson Hole Kayak School in Jackson, said any rescue 400 yards from shore in Yellowstone Lake would require a deep water rescue technique where the guide would dump water out of the capsized boat and help the client back in.

The guide typically does not get out of his or her boat during a deep water rescue, Pelosi, whose company conducts kayak tours in Yellowstone Lake, said.

“As a guide I’m trying almost to never be out of my boat unless I’m on land,” he said.

Since 1894, there have been 41 deaths in Yellowstone Lake. The most recent was in 1997 when two people died while canoeing.

It was the second death in Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, this month. An Illinois man was found dead June 9 from an apparent fall.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A 21-year-old North Carolina man has suffered severe burns after falling into a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Park officials say Gervais Dylan Gatete of Raleigh, an employee of park concessionaire Xanterra Parks and Resorts, fell into a spring in the Lower Geyser Basin on Tuesday.

Gatete was with seven other people when he fell. He was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone, Montana, and was flown to the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Hospital spokeswoman Suzanne Winchester said he was in critical but stable condition.

Park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said the incident is still under investigation.

It’s the first serious injury in a thermal area in Yellowstone this year. Last June, a man died after falling into a hot spring in the Norris Geyser Basin.