A historic wooden tower was inadvertently felled by a traveler who used it to winch a vehicle stuck in mud in California’s Death Valley National Park, federal officials said.

The traveler recently came forward but will not be identified, the National Park Service said in a statement Thursday. It isn’t clear if any action against them will be taken.

Concrete footings for the 113-year-old tower were released from their bonds with the desert floor in Saline Valley, about 150 miles west of Las…