Originally published Aug. 5 on KTVB.COM. An Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) biologist saved a 10-year-old boy in the Selway River earlier this summer. On July 13, Robert Hand, a biologist for IDFG from the Clearwater Region Fisheries, was wrapping up a work-related float trip on the Selway River when he heard a family shouting downstream, according to Fish and Game.