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Idiot Tourists Spark Outrage After Trampling Over Yellowstone’s Natural Landmark
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3:34Now PlayingTwo tourists faced severe backlash when they risked death and caused major damage by walking across the Grand Prismatic Spring’s fragile bacterial mats in Yellowstone National Park. The highly sensitive mats, which give the iconic hot spring its vivid colors, take roughly a year to regrow when trampled. A single footprint can crush millions of cells and leave permanent scars.
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