Record 20,000-Plus Pieces of Debris Pulled From Yellowstone’s Thermal Areas This Year

Record 20,000-plus pieces of debris pulled from Yellowstone’s thermal areas this year

Yellowstone National Park crews have removed more than 20,000 pieces of trash and lost items from the park’s fragile thermal areas this year, including hundreds of hats and coins.

Yellowstone rangers clean 20K pieces of trash from the park. The most common find is something visitors hate to lose

From claw clips to camera lens caps, the thousands of trash items reveal a lot about national park visitors.