Yellowstone Webcam Catches Men Using Old Faithful as Toilet

Timothy B. Hurst — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:26:10 +0000

A webcam installed last year to broadcast live streaming video of Yellowstone National Park’s iconic Old Faithful Geyser around the world was instrumental in the arrest of six vandals last week. As seen in photos released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a group of six trespassers ventured off the visitor boardwalk; two apparently urinated and one dropped a rock into what is arguably the world’s most famous geyser.

Outraged by what they saw on their home computers on the evening of May 4th, viewers of the Old Faithful webcam contacted park officials who then dispatched park rangers. The trespassers were apprehended as they returned to the boardwalk twenty minutes later.

Drought Causing Old Faithful to be Less Faithful

Jennifer Lance — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:55:55 +0000

A new study suggests that geysers, like Old Faithful, are affected by climate conditions, such as droughts. Shaul Hurwitz, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, Ashish Kumar, a Stanford University statistician, and two National Park Service scientists have discovered that changes in the supply of underground water to a geyser can influence the amount of time between eruptions. “Coupled with this decrease in precipitation, we see an increase in eruption intervals with all the geysers we analyzed,” explained Hurwitz.

Image credit: tiarescott at Flickr under a Creative Commons license

Via: Casper Star-Tribune

Green Options » Old Faithful

Yellowstone Webcam Catches Men Using Old Faithful as Toilet

Drought Causing Old Faithful to be Less Faithful