How Else Are Humans Effecting Yellowstone?
Yellowstone National Park has a large variety of wildlife, the world’s most extraordinary hot springs, and the Earth’s largest concentration of geysers, including Old Faithful. Thus, the famous national park has become a major tourist attraction for people all over the world. Everybody knows that when there’s many people around, there’s bound to be litter in places it shouldn’t be along with other negative impacts that humans obliviously cause. Big animals such as grizzly bears and elk roam around the park and have adapted to the area and made it their home. However, considering the park is so large, there aren’t any defined boundaries in regards to where the park starts and stops. Consequently, this is where conflict between the wildlife and people come in. When animals begin to wonder out of the park onto unprotected areas, there is immediately much danger to any humans touring the park. While humans are visiting the park in order to see the geysers and hot springs located there, they can also be destroying them at the same time. Some people like to throw things into the geysers to make wishes for good luck or just for fun. When this happens, the water pressure is altered which can in turn negatively affect its natural activity. Many objects, natural and unnatural, have had to be filtered out of geyser vents in order to regulate the circulation and the temperature. Next time you visit Yellowstone, be cautious about the litter around you and try to control your temptations to make a shot into one of the geysers in order to keep Yellowstone the beautiful place it has been since 1872.