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Yellowstone Plagued by Geyser Junkies — Reprinted Excerpt

September 1978

Reprinted excerpt, not a complete article. The Paper’s September 1978 Los Angeles Times collage contains only this opening portion; no continuation has been supplied.

How to Turn a Cool Ranger Hot

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.—They come and throw —coins, cans and flip-tops, hairpins, gum wrappers, shoes, bottles, sticks and stones the size of footballs.

Flinging junk into Yellowstone National Park’s geysers and hot pools is something approaching a national pastime. Once, a shiny red snowmobile escaped from its owner and buzzed into a hot pool.

Originally published in The Paper, September 1978.

Read this article in the original newspaper issue.

Archival transcription note: The original issue contains only the opening clipping. No continuation is present or invented.

Original source: SD_Times1978_09.pdf, printed page(s) 8; PDF page(s) 8.

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