NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old man died after drowning at Lake Lowell east of Nampa.

KTVB-TV reports paramedics and sheriff’s deputies received a report of a drowning at the lake Sunday evening.

Officials say a bystander jumped into the water to try to save the man.

Officials say after the man was pulled out of the water, CPR was performed on him in hopes of reviving him, but he remained unresponsive and was pronounced dead shortly after.

Officials believe the man may have been at the lake with friends, but have not said what may have caused him to go underwater.

The man’s identity has not been released pending family notification.

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Information from: KTVB-TV, http://www.ktvb.com/

FRISCO, Colo. (AP) — Skier visits to U.S. resorts in the Rocky Mountains were down about 5 percent this past winter, which equates to about 1 million fewer visits than the prior winter season.

The Summit Daily News reports that the National Ski Areas Association tallied about 21 million visits to the region’s slopes for 2017-2018 in a preliminary study.

Despite the decline, several resorts set visitation records. They included Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, Whitefish and Bridger Bowl in Montana and Schweitzer Mountain in Idaho.

Low snowfall amounts early in the season in the southern and central Rocky Mountain region prevented the industry from boosting business overall.

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Information from: Summit Daily News, http://www.summitdaily.com/

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two men drove around at least two road-closed signs due to faulty navigation device information while trying to get to Yellowstone National Park and had to be rescued from deep snow, sheriff’s officers in Wyoming said Thursday.

Park County authorities said 60-year-old John Ray Elmore Jr. of Los Angeles and his father, 85-year-old John M. Elmore Sr. of Nashville, Indiana, likely won’t be cited for using the road northwest of Cody.

The road has been closed and unplowed since fall. Snow still covers much of the route, but the men said their navigation device showed it was open.

Their Nissan SUV got stuck Tuesday about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the last road-closed sign. The men called for help on a cellphone.

Rescuers got them out with help from a resident with a pickup truck.

Many roads in and around Yellowstone National Park remain covered with snow and unpassable. In Wyoming, driving around a road-closed sign is a big no-no, possibly punishable by a $420 fine.

The men got stuck in snow about 60 miles northwest of Cody on Beartooth Highway.

Their call for help was dropped before they could say where they were and that they were unhurt, but rescuers soon found them. A resident with a pickup truck and tire chains pulled their small Nissan SUV out of the snow and the men decided to take a different route into the park, Park County Search and Rescue Coordinator Lance Mathess said.

“It does happen maybe once or twice year, where tourists don’t know where they’re going. The residents know better than to go up there,” Mathess said.

The men probably won’t be ticketed because they’re not from Wyoming and didn’t come into contact with a sheriff’s deputy, Mathess said.

Efforts to reach the men were unsuccessful. They faced a fairly long drive to get to the park if they didn’t head to the East Entrance, which is 64 miles west of Cody but still closed for the season until at least Friday. The next-closest route was a 230-mile detour into Montana.

The Beartooth Highway is among the last of the region’s mountain roads that is completely plowed but typically not until Memorial Day or later.

Yellowstone’s summer season brings as many as 900,000 visitors a month and a range of rescue scenarios, from dehydrated hikers to tourists falling in hot springs.

Around the time the men were being rescued, a bison surprised a hiker as she came around a bend in a trail near Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone.

The bison dropped its head and butted 72-year-old Virginia Junk of Boise, Idaho, in the thigh, pushing her from the path.

She was treated for minor injuries and taken to a hospital.

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison rammed a 72-year-old Idaho woman and tossed her off a trail as she walked in Yellowstone National Park.

Park officials said Wednesday that Virginia Junk of Boise was treated for minor injuries and transported to a hospital following the encounter in the Old Faithful area.

She reportedly came around a bend in the trail Tuesday and was unable to move out of the animal’s way. It dropped its head, butted her in the thigh and pushed her off the trail.

She’s the first Yellowstone visitor hurt by a bison this year. A bison injured a husband and wife last year, and there were five such incidents in 2015.

Visitors are advised to say at least 25 yards from the animals.

SHADY COVE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police say they’re seeking information about two deer in southern Oregon who were found with arrows caught shot through their bodies.

The animals were found in the wild Friday near Shady Cove, one with an arrow embedded through its head and the other close to its neck.

Fish and Wildlife workers tried to tranquilize the deer to remove the arrows but were unable to capture them.

Authorities say the injuries don’t appear to be life-threatening, as the animals are able to eat and walk.

A reward is being offered by the Oregon Hunters Association for information about the attackers.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park geologists have reported the third eruption from the world’s largest active geyser in the past six weeks.

The National Park Service says a park visitor reported seeing a rare eruption of Steamboat Geyser on Friday.

Park geologists compared the report with seismic activity and the discharge of water and concluded the eruption probably started at 6:30 a.m.

The geyser also erupted on March 15 and April 19.

All three eruptions were smaller than the last major eruption that occurred on Sept. 3, 2014.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials say they will not restore federal protections for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears despite a court ruling that called into question the government’s rationale for placing the animals under state management.

Friday’s announcement follows a months-long review of a decision last year to lift the protections for about 700 bears in and around Yellowstone National Park.

The review was launched after a federal appeals court said that wildlife officials needed to give more consideration to how a species’ loss of historical habitat affects its recovery.

Grizzly bears have recovered from widespread extermination in some areas but remain absent from most of their historical range.

Wyoming and Idaho plan to allow hunts for a small number of grizzly bears this fall.

Montana officials decided against a hunt this year.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A raging fire at a base lodge at Idaho’s famed Sun Valley Resort ski area heavily damaged the building just days after the ski season ended, officials said Thursday.

Flames were shooting 30 feet from the roof of the resort’s Warm Springs Lodge when police arrived at the scene Wednesday night and the fire was still burning Thursday afternoon, officials said.

There were no reports of injuries. The resort held its final day of skiing last Sunday.

No damage estimate was immediately available but it was difficult for firefighters to put out the fire because it got into a space between the building’s ceiling and roof, said Will Fruehling, chief deputy of the Blaine County sheriff’s office.

“I’m not a building expert, but when big portions of the roof are burned or gone or collapsed, I would find it hard to believe that it’s salvageable,” he said.

No employees were inside the building that had been closed for the season and there were no reports of injuries, said Sun Valley Resort spokeswoman Kelli Lusk.

Damage was estimated at more than $1 million, said Neil Bradshaw, the mayor of the town of Ketchum where the resort is located. He said an investigation into the cause will be conducted by the Ketchum Fire Department, Idaho State Fire Marshal Knute Sandahl, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The ski area closed for the season last Sunday with events at the lodge that Ketchum Mayor Neil Bradshaw said brought the community together.

“I’m sure that this sad situation will also bring the community together in a way that we find a solution going forward,” he told reporters near the lodge. “This is important for our town, important for our valley, and we will work toward finding a good solution that works for our community.”

It wasn’t yet known if sprinklers inside the lodge had activated, Bradshaw said.

The lodge made of river stones and logs was built in 1993 and is one of two base lodges at different access points to the slopes of the 9,150-foot (2,789-meter) Bald Mountain.

Bald Mountain and Sun Valley Resort are consistently listed nationally as among the top destinations for skiers, and draws international visitors.

Bald Mountain, typically called Baldy by locals, has also produced some of the nation’s top alpine skiers and snowboarders.

Picabo Street learned to ski at Sun Valley and won a silver medal in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Norway and a gold medal in the super G at the 1998 Olympics in Japan.

Snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington also learned at the resort and won a gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2014 Olympics in Russia.

The Sun Valley region became a seasonal destination for the elite after novelist Ernest Hemingway, who is buried in Ketchum, and other stars started visiting in the late 1930s.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AP) — Wyoming is estimated to have at least 347 wolves roaming within its borders after the state regained management of the animals and allowed limited hunting of wolves, according to an annual report by state wildlife managers.

The number of wolves counted by state game managers at the end of 2017 is down from about 380 estimated the year before.

State Game and Fish Department officials say the wolf population level continues to be healthy and exceeds all criteria established to show that the species is recovered.

“It is significant that today we are now managing recovered and healthy populations of all of Wyoming’s native large carnivores,” Dan Thompson, large carnivore section supervisor, said in a statement Wednesday.

But a wildlife advocate decried the drop in wolf numbers.

“Wolves won’t persist outside Yellowstone National Park if Wyoming continues to eradicate them at this appalling pace,” Andrea Santarsiere, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said.

Wolves in Yellowstone and on the Wind River Indian Reservation remain under federal protection.

The state report released Wednesday said 43 wolves were legally hunted last year in the state outside Yellowstone and the reservation. It was the first time since 2013 that the state held a wolf hunt after the federal government allowed the state to resume management of the wolves last year.

According to the report, wolves killed 191 livestock outside Yellowstone and the reservation in 2017. That’s down from 243 in 2016.

And the number of wolves removed separately from the legal hunting season for conflicts with livestock fell from 113 in 2016 to 61 last year, the report said.

A federal appeals court in early 2017 lifted endangered species protection for wolves in Wyoming, allowing the state to take over management of the animals. Wolves were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies, including Idaho and Montana, in the mid-1990s.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk says he’s looking forward to learning more about Wyoming’s initiative to collect a fee at Yellowstone to fund wildlife conservation efforts in the states surrounding the park.

Wenk tells the Powell Tribune he has many questions about the resolution and he’s concerned about adding to the overall cost park visitors must pay.

The Wyoming Legislature this year approved a resolution that seeks an agreement with U.S. Interior Department and National Park Service on collecting a fee at Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

Proponents say the idea is to generate money for Wyoming, Montana and Idaho to deal with issues like wildlife collisions, disease and migration routes.

The Wyoming resolution doesn’t specify how the fee would be assessed or what the amount would be.

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Information from: Powell (Wyo.) Tribune, http://www.powelltribune.com