"REHABILITATING" MORNING GLORY POOL, Yellowstone
National Park. Morning Glory hot pool, aptly named because of its
shape and exquisite coloring, was being choked to death by careless
visitors. To save it from the fate of the once-famous Handkerchief Pool,
which had been completely ruined by vandalism, the park's
experts on hot water phenomena worked out a complicated sort of "stomach
pump."
The forced eruption, caused by twelve lines of garden
hose and scoop shovels, brought up 110 different types of objects. Among
them were enough tax tokens to fill a 5-pound jar, $97.34 in coins,
wearing apparel, Ingersoll watches, pocket knives and combs, whistles
and sun glasses. (Photograph by Watson.)
DEBRIS FROM MORNING GLORY POOL
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ONCE A FIREPLACE, Grand Canyon National Park.
The National Park Service provides, from tax money appropriated for
it, facilities such as tables and chairs, fireplaces, and other
necessities in free campgrounds. Here is shown a fireplace deliberately
broken apart. Why? The question is difficult to answer.
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AFTER A MOONLIGHT BARBECUE, Yosemite National
Park. After a moonlight barbecue held on Sentinel Beach by about 150
people, the park staff found they had left all this debris. Either
visitors should be willing to clean up the parks, which belong to them,
after such a party; or they should be interested in having sufficient
funds provided to make possible constant policing of the 25 million
acres of land administered by the National Park Service.
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