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Yellowstone
National Park - Morning Glory Pool - Fading Glory
Location
of sign - Upper Geyser Basin trail in Yellowstone National Park
Photo
taken June 2008
Close-up
view of sign
Wide
view of sign
Text
of sign:
Fading
Glory
Morning
Glory Pool is losing its brilliant color. Through ignorance
and vandalism, people have tossed objects into the hot spring,
clogging
its vent and lowering the temperature. Brown, orange, and
yellow algae-like bacteria thrive in the cooler water,
gradually
turning the vivid aqua-blue into a murkier greenish brown.
All
thermal features are at risk. Hot springs and geysers have
fragile, complex plumbing that takes centuries to develop.
Morning
Glory's
future is uncertain; you can help by immediately reporting any
vandalism.
Every
year park personnel remove hundreds of rocks, coins and other
objects from Morning Glory Pool.
Brown,
orange, and yellow algae-like bacteria thrive when the hot spring's
temperature drops.
Graphics
on the sign
In
addition to the text there is a picture of Morning Glory Pool, a picture of a
tourist throwing trash in the pool which is depicted
as
full of more trash at the bottom. There is also a photo of a
park employee cleaning out the pool.
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