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Sunday, 17th May 2009

Old Faithful Vandals Caught on Webcam

A live streaming web camera installed last year to broadcast Old Faithful Geyser was instrumental in the arrest of six vandals last week. In photos posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a group of six “cone walkers” ventured off the visitor boardwalk; two apparently urinated and one dropped a rock into the iconic geyser at Yellowstone National Park.

The incident took place on the evening of May 4th and lasted for approximately 20 minutes. Outraged viewers on the Old Faithful webcam contacted park officials and the transgressors were apprehended as they returned to the boardwalk. The six, who are employees of the park concessionaire, were cited by park officials and will appear before a magistrate on May 19th where they face possible fines and jail time.

The webcam footage shows that several of the cone walkers appeared to urinate on the geyser cone. Two of them are seen digging around the geyser catch basin and one looks to have dropped a rock into the geyser itself.

This may be the first instance in which a webcam has been used in this fashion to protect park natural resources. Yellowstone National Park now has five webcams but only one at Old Faithful has continuous streaming video.

+ See the cone walkers captured on the webcam (PDF; 88 KB)
+ Look at the advent of the Old Faithful streaming webcam and some of its implications
+ View the Yellowstone webcams
+ Read about the new Yellowstone Wireless Communication plan

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

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