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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The body of a rafter missing in northwest Wyoming since the Fourth of July has been recovered. The Teton County Sheriff's Office says the body of 21-year-old Oliver Woodward was found Wednesday by a kayaker on the Snake River near Alpine in neighboring Lincoln County.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — An energy company is proposing to drill up to 3,500 natural gas wells on 220 square miles of Bureau of Land Management property in southwest Wyoming. The proposed project by Jonah Energy would be adjacent to the already developed Pinedale Anticline and Jonah fields.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A convicted rapist from Wyoming faces trial this fall for sexual assaults reported in Jackson 1974 and 1975. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports prosecutors have asked the judge to allow jurors to hear that when Donald Kenneth Pack Jr confessed to the Jackson rapes he confessed to other rapes. Charges haven't been filed in the other cases.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Visitation to Yellowstone National Park during June is down 4.8 percent from a year ago. However, it's still the second-busiest June on record in the nation's first national park. The National Park Service says it counted more than 803,000 visits last month.

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