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Park rangers at Yellowstone National Park busted a Chinese tourist last week for leaving the safety of the designated boardwalk at the park’s Mammoth Hot Springs.
The man admitted to collecting water from the hot springs and told rangers he did not read the safety information given to visitors at the park entrance.
He was fined $1,000.
Just days before, a 23-year-old Oregon man died after also walking off a designated walkway at Morris Geyser Basin and falling into the 200-degree hot spring. He was more than 225 yards off the boardwalk when he fell in.
These and a handful of other accidents at the park have park rangers grappling with what to do about Yellowstone’s most problematic species this season.
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