Yellowstone is not a zoo.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

This calf had to be put down.

If you touch or pet a wild animal you have probably killed it.  In the case of this bison calf, its scent was changed and the herd then rejected it.  The staff were right to euthanize it.

Animals in the wild are not there for your amusement.  Keep your distance.

[Sabretooth78 808]

Stupid people.  Really, I should just say "people"; the stupid is redundant.
 

Spoiler

I actually had to look up what a car "boot" was.  Apparently we Yanks call it a "trunk".  Around here, a "boot" is a wheel clamp, apparently also known as a "Denver boot".  I usually see at least one a day in the work parking lot.

Learn something new every day.  Don't stuff a baby bison in the trunk (duh), a trunk is a boot and the boot was invented in Denver.  Guess it's time for bed already.

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

I've actually said it for decades, the park should only hold guided tours, or you have to hike, stop letting people destroy it by letting them drive through it.   

[Easy Bakes 253]

3 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

I've actually said it for decades, the park should only hold guided tours, or you have to hike, stop letting people destroy it by letting them drive through it.   

Good idea

 

[Sabretooth78 808]

13 hours ago, philforhockey51 said:

I've actually said it for decades, the park should only hold guided tours, or you have to hike, stop letting people destroy it by letting them drive through it.   

Realize that this is in the same country that decided shopping malls were passé so we decided to take the roofs off, replace the interior corridors with roads so that you can now drive from store to store instead of walk and rebranded said malls as "lifestyle" centers.  A moronic name if I've ever heard one.

Lifestyle, alright.

[Duke87 1,070]

On 5/18/2016 at 5:47 PM, philforhockey51 said:

I've actually said it for decades, the park should only hold guided tours, or you have to hike, stop letting people destroy it by letting them drive through it.   

Easier said than done. Yellowstone, like much of the western US, is a fairly remote area. Closing the roads through the park to public travel would necessitate some pretty long detours to get from one side to the other. Not everyone who drives through there is a tourist.

I also would not let one story about something stupid that a few people did cloud the reality that, as I mentioned, it is a remote area. Nature in the region around Yellowstone is not exactly threatened, there are relatively few people compared to all the wild animals.

Also realize that the vast majority of Yellowstone already is only accessible by hiking. It is an area of 3500 square miles (thee times the size of Rhode Island, to put that in perspective) traversed by only a few roads.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

^ I have to agree.  Wildlife in our large federal/provincial parks are in no danger from the few fools who stop there occasionally.  Some of them may be eaten, deservedly so.  Our biggest danger is people who are careless with fire, since most parks are part of the boreal forest.

[SteveMSim 275]

Now a man is presumed dead after he wandered off a path and fell into a geyser at Yellowstone.  Those hot springs and geysers are dangerous and that's a reason visitors must stay onto marked trails and paths.  Also, in May, a Canadian film crew walked off a path and went into a hot spring for unauthorized filming.  They face charges should they reenter the United States.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/man-presumed-dead-after-falling-into-hot-spring-at-yellowstone/article_43391959-04ec-5b16-8b94-aabf346a0fa6.html

Yellowstone National Park is a wild place and can be unforgiving for those people who disregard that fact and break the rules.