LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — Trout need cool water to survive, but record heat this summer has driven water temperatures to lethal levels for fish.
Wildlife officials are banning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the U.S. West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid widespread drought. Lower water levels mean rivers can heat more rapidly.
The restrictions aim to reduce stress on species including highly-prized trout. Anglers travel from around the world to find the fish in Yellowstone National Park or Western Montana's Blackfoot River, featured in the movie "A River Runs Through It."
More record temperatures are forecast this weekend as a heat wave in the Southwest expands north into the Rocky Mountains and east across the High Plains.
On the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana, California resident Mike Wever waded into the swiftly-moving water Friday with a fly fishing rod in one hand. He dipped his free hand into the water.

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Bison that appear to be grazing peacefully are able to accelerate into a terrifying pace, making them among the most dangerous animals in Yellowstone, where one of the giant bovines recently charged at and tossed a grandfather.
Carl McDaniel, 65, suffered multiple bone fractures in the July 10 attack at the national park but lived to tell the tale, as seen in a video he recorded a few days later from his bed at Bozeman Health Deaconess Medical Center in southern Montana.
"He wasn't showing aggression or anything like that until it picked a target. That target happened to be me," McDaniel said in the video posted on Instagram on Saturday.
McDaniel was on a after-dinner stroll with his grandson when the attack happened at Bridge Bay Campground, not far from Yellowstone Lake.
"They move faster than you could ever imagine. He just kept coming," he said. The bison did not connect with McDaniel's grandson, who was not hurt.

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A man is recovering from surgery after he was tossed into the air by a bison at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
The unidentified man was seen walking with his grandson when the bison charged at him and threw him up into the air after he attempted to run away from the massive animal on Friday.
"A 65-year-old man was injured by a bison on the evening of July 10 at Bridge Bay Campground near Lake Yellowstone," park officials told ABC News in a statement. "Park emergency medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital."
Campers first noticed the lone bison amid the tents as it began to run around the campsite, and shouted to warn others.
Mike MacLeod, a local park photographer who witnessed the attack and captured it on video, told ABC News he "really didn't think [the bison] was going to pick those two people of all the people who were even way closer."

A 65-year-old man has been hospitalized after being thrown several feet into the air by a charging bison at Yellowstone National Park. NBC News' Camila Bernal reports.

(NewsNation) — Indie distributor Neon will release "Artificial," a dramatized film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, after Amazon MGM Studios walked away from the project last month.
Amazon dropped the film June 19. The company has not publicly explained the decision beyond a statement to Variety saying it believed the movie "will be better served if it were released by a different studio." Neon finalized a deal for the film June 30, according to Variety.
According to Variety, "Artificial" portrays Altman as a pathological liar and Elon Musk as a villain. Podcast host Matthew Belloni, who said he read the script, told Esquire the film tackles sensitive issues within the tech industry and presents a bleak view of artificial intelligence's future.
Sam Elliott thought 'Yellowstone' was a 'cowboy soap opera': Taylor Sheridan
"This is not a flattering portrait of Sam Altman. This is '[The] Social Network' kind of on steroids, because you add in not only these guys warping the culture, they could potentially end the world. And that's the message of this movie," Belloni said.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Arizona Diamondbacks fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.
Since I was out of range this week – I will be leaving a one-star review on Yellowstone’s TripAdvisor page, due to the lack of wifi – there was no specifically D-backs related question this week. So let’s just discuss the national poll, sent out to those on the list (and if you aren’t on it, the link above has you covered). There were three questions. The first was in regard to which executive was on the hottest seat. You probably won’t be surprised to discover that the Mets’ David Stearns was the clear winner there, at 62%. However, the Giants’ Buster Posey (20%) while the Red Sox – and former D-back – Craig Breslow (18%) also got significant support.
These are all examples of teams with large payrolls, in excess of $210 million cash value per Spotrac, putting them comfortably in the top half of MLB spending this year. But they are also all struggling: the Red Sox, at 38-48, have the best record. We’re still not even at the All-Star break, and they only have a fifteen percent chance of making the playoffs, according to Fangraphs – and that feels generous to me. The Mets and Giants might as well pack it up and go home. New York and Boston have already fired their managers, and one wonders how long San Francisco will stick with Tony Vitello, the first man to go straight from a college job to MLB management.
Related: another question was “Who won the Rafael Devers trade?” and a resounding victory there was “No one” at 69%. However, the Red Sox did beat the Giants in the remainder, by a 22-9 percent margin. That seems fair. Boston did get to dump a massive contract for a player who was increasingly toxic there. However, the players they got back have either fizzled, or been traded on. For example, Kyle Harrison was yesterday’s starter for the Brewes against the D-backs, and despite his struggles there, is 8-1 with an excellent 2.82 ERA. Meanwhile, Devers has been worth just 3.2 bWAR over a year and a half. He’s on the SF books for seven more seasons and $225 million. Yep. Happy not to be them.

Just months before Jelly Roll filed for divorce from wife Bunnie Xo, she opened up about infidelity, arguments and their rocky newlywed days in her memoir.
The 41-year-old "Son of a Sinner" singer – whose real name is Jason DeFord – filed for divorce from his podcaster wife, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, on May 18, according to court records reviewed by USA TODAY on Monday, June 15. A divorce filing obtained by the USA TODAY Network noted the couple separated on May 9. The couple had been married for 10 years.
In "Stripped Down" (published Feb. 17 from Dey Street Books), Bunnie takes readers back to their first meeting at his concert in Las Vegas and the spontaneous courthouse wedding shortly after. What follows is a whirlwind relationship involving the couple's custody battle for Jelly Roll's daughter from a previous marriage, an affair, an abrupt move out, a sour stint in marriage counseling and, eventually, reconciliation. The producers of "Landman" and "Yellowstone" have acquired the rights for a film adaptation of the memoir, Variety reported in March.
"If we're far from perfect now, we were farther then," she writes.
When the couple got full custody of Jelly Roll's daughter early in their relationship, they moved to Nashville. But, as Bunnie writes in her memoir, coming back to Nashville meant that "women from J's past were resurfacing."

Bureau of Land Management Says Bison Are Not Livestock, Obstructing Plans for a Huge Private Prairie Reserve

An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope play in eastern Montana is being stymied by an obtuse new ruling by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The goal of the American Prairie nonprofit is to re-create a prairie ecosystem one-and-a-half times the size of Yellowstone National Park that can eventually support a free-ranging herd of 5,000 bison. Such a reserve would also greatly benefit other prairie s

A fiery collision between a pickup and a tour van left seven people dead in eastern Idaho near Yellowstone National Park on Thursday evening, according to Idaho State Police.

A fiery collision between a pickup and a tour van left seven people dead in eastern Idaho near Yellowstone National Park on Thursday evening, according to Idaho State Police.