John W. Keys III, a former Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner and longtime Boise resident, died Friday morning in a plane crash in Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Gary Kramer, 49, of Scottsdale, Ariz. also died in the crash. Keys, 66, a longtime pilot, was flying on a sightseeing trip over the park's Needles District, said San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy in a news release.  Keys, now of Moab, stepped down as commissioner of the bureau in 2006 after a 40-year-career that included 18 years in Boise as Pacific Northwest director.

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