Tourists habituate a raven to a human snack. Doing wildlife no favors, lots of people every year have to be warned about the dangers and folly of feeding wildlife. "A fed bear is a dead bear" serves as just one mantra. With Park Service ranks understaffed, many rangers told Mountain Journal they couldn't keep up with natural resource violations, some of which resulted in harm to wildlife and geothermal features.
Tourists habituate a raven to a human snack. Doing wildlife no favors, lots of people every year have to be warned about the dangers and folly of feeding wildlife. "A fed bear is a dead bear" serves as just one mantra. With Park Service ranks understaffed, many rangers told Mountain Journal they couldn't keep up with natural resource violations, some of which resulted in harm to wildlife and geothermal features.