CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The reward for information leading to whoever shot a rare white wolf found inside Yellowstone National Park rose to $10,000 on Friday after a wolf advocacy group matched a $5,000 reward offered earlier by the park.

Yellowstone officials euthanized the severely injured wolf after hikers found the animal suffering in the northern edge of the park, near Gardiner, Montana, on April 11. The 12-year-old wolf that was killed was the alpha female of a group of wolves dubbed the Canyon Pack and a popular target of photographers.

The park offered a $5,000 reward Thursday for information leading to a conviction after announcing a preliminary necropsy finding that the wolf had been shot.

The Montana group Wolves of the Rockies followed up with its own $5,000 reward.

Park officials have not said whether they have leads in their investigation into who killed the wolf, but Wolves of the Rockies President Marc Cook speculated the wolf’s killer was someone angry about the reintroduction of wolves to the park more than two decades ago.

“People take matters into their own hands and feel they are above the law and they kind of flaunt that fact that they can do what they want to do and there’s no repercussions,” Cook said.

Park officials also have not commented on a motive for the wolf’s killing, but many hunting outfitters and ranchers oppose the presence of the wolves, which now number about 100 in the park. Wolves prey on big-game animals popular with hunters, such as elk, and sometimes kill cattle on pastures outside Yellowstone.

The shooting happened at a time of transition for wolves in nearby Wyoming, where a federal appeals court ruled in March that they could be removed from Endangered Species Act protection.

Environmentalists had persuaded a judge to put wolves back on the endangered list in Wyoming in 2014. Their concerns included a shoot-on-sight provision for wolves in most of the state, one that does not exist in Idaho or Montana.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found Wyoming adequately addressed those concerns. Wolves went back off the endangered list in Wyoming on April 25.

Reclassified by the state as predators of livestock, they once again may be shot on sight by anyone in most of Wyoming outside Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park and nearby wild country. Relatively few wolves wander far from the Yellowstone region in Wyoming.

The wolf found shot in Yellowstone was more than 70 miles (110 kilometers) from where it could legally have been shot on sight in Wyoming two weeks later when wolves found there had been taken off the endangered list.

The dead wolf was double the average age of a Yellowstone wolf and had at least 20 pups, of which 14 became yearlings. She was together with the same alpha male wolf for more than nine years, park officials said.

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SEATTLE (AP) — For the first time since 2011, the Pacific Northwest isn’t showing any signs of drought.

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows that Oregon, Washington and Idaho are free from drought worries.

Kathie Dello, deputy director of Oregon’s climate office, says the Northwest saw lots of precipitation during the water year that began in October.

She says snow and rain came earlier and stayed later. Typically drier months such as October, February, March and April were wetter than usual across the region.

Idaho had its wettest January to April on record, breaking the previous record set in 1904. Seattle also broke its record for wettest April.

Dello says reservoirs are full and the region has ample mountain snowpack.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — A man was attacked and injured by a grizzly bear while searching for antlers shed by deer and elk in northwestern Wyoming, near Cody.

State Game and Fish officials say the man reported he was picking up an antler Tuesday afternoon when the bear knocked him down and bit his arm two or three times.

The man was able to drive himself to the hospital.

Large carnivore biologist Luke Ellsbury says the man suffered some bruises and scrapes on his right arm and left leg. His name was not released.

Game and Fish spokeswoman Tara Hodges says it appeared to be a surprise encounter, the bear fled, and managers don’t expect to take any further management action against the animal.

Shed antlers can be used for display, crafts and dog chews.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials say a wolf they euthanized after hikers found the animal suffering from a serious injury had been shot.

Park officials released preliminary necropsy findings Thursday for the wolf that was discovered wounded on April 11 near Gardiner, Montana, in northern Yellowstone.

They are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the shooter’s conviction. The alpha female of the Canyon Pack was one of three white wolves in Yellowstone.

She was 12 years old — twice the age of an average Yellowstone wolf — and one of the park’s most sought-after wolves for photographs.

Park officials say the wolf was shot likely between 1 a.m. on April 10 and 2 p.m. on April 11.

OGDEN, Utah — Authorities say an 8-year-old boy with autism who had been chasing his service dog when he fell into a river has died.

KUTV-TV reports that the 8-year-old boy was rescued on Tuesday after being pinned by a log in a Utah river, but died later that night.

A firefighter who spotted the boy in the Ogden River performed CPR after he pulled the boy from the water.

The boy was taken to an Ogden Hospital where he was found in “extremely critical condition.” He was later flown to a Salt Lake City hospital.

Fire Department Chief Mike Mathieu says the boy’s family had been camping in the area, but it is unclear whether the boy was supervised when he entered the river.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah zoo falcon was killed by wolves after he flew away during a bird show and landed in the wolf pen.

Hogle Zoo spokeswoman Erica Hansen said Tuesday that the 17-year-old Lanner Falcon named “Maximus” took an errant turn during the Sunday show and landed in an open-air enclosure home to two wolves.

Doing “what predators do,” Hansen says the wolves killed the falcon. Zookeepers distracted the wolves and got the falcon out before he was eaten.

Hansen says a handful of people were watching when the falcon was killed by the wolves.

She says “Maximus” has been in the show for 10 years and is nearly irreplaceable. She says the zoo’s bird staff is heart-broken and plans to have a memorial for the falcon.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A man from Washington state and a man and woman from Wyoming have died in an eastern Idaho reservoir.

Officials on Saturday identified the three as 69-year-old Leo S. Britt of Grapeview, Washington, 64-year-old Niel Hines of Jeffrey City, Wyoming, and 44-year-old Sydney Hines of Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office says the three were apparently trying to cross Palisades Reservoir on Thursday on a camping trip when their small motor boat capsized.

Investigators say their bodies were recovered Friday and all three wore lifejackets. Officials say they appear to have died of hypothermia in the cold water before being able to reach shore.

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This story has been corrected to say that Niel Hines and Sydney Hines were from Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials have asked 2017 visitors to adopt its “Safe Selfie” policy.

The Cody Enterprise reported (http://bit.ly/2pdWGSu ) earlier this week that Yellowstone officials have issued the policy in response to a rash of irresponsible and illegal behavior the past two years.

Yellowstone broke records by topping 4 million tourists for the first time in 2015 and then topped that with 4.2 million visitors last year. Mixed in the millions, a number of visitors have made bad decisions.

Two summers ago, five people taking selfie photographs provoked bison into attacking them. No one was killed, but medical treatment had been needed.

Last year, a tourist had died after walking off a pedestrian boardwalk into a thermal area.

The Yellowstone East Gate will open at 8 a.m. Friday.

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Information from: The Cody Enterprise, http://www.codyenterprise.com

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a 54-year-old man died while skiing at Snowbird east of Salt Lake City.

Unified Police Detective Ken Hanson said the man was found face down in the snow at about 10 a.m. Wednesday inside the boundaries at Snowbird resort. Hanson says investigators don’t know yet if he died from a skiing accident or a medical incident.

He says the Salt Lake City man doesn’t appear to have hit anything. Hanson says he was an avid skier who was familiar with the resort’s terrain.

Police aren’t disclosing his name yet.

Snowbird is the last resort still open this ski season in Utah.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The wicked winter that socked the Sierra will make for some unusual summer skiing at a Lake Tahoe resort that plans to keep the slopes open past the Fourth of July for the first time in its history.

The Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows resort earlier announced plans to offer skiing through the holiday weekend of July 1-4 — only the fourth time that’s happened at the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Andy Wirth, the resort’s president and CEO, upped the ante on Wednesday with an announcement that they now intend to continue operating well into the summer.

Wirth says they plan open the slopes every summer Saturday as long as the snow holds out. He says Squaw Valley currently has a base depth of 20 feet of snow.