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National Park After Dark

12 - How Not To Die. Yellowstone Edition

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Grab your notebooks and sharpen those pencils, it’s time to take notes on how to not die in Yellowstone. Designated as the world’s first national park, Yellowstone is unique in so many ways. From its distinct thermal features, various species of iconic wildlife and picturesque landscapes this park draws in millions of visitors annually. 149 years of people flooding the gates, roadways and trails has left Yellowstone with its fair share of tragedy. So much in fact, that hundreds of stories have filled thousands of pages in our history books. As with every historical event, there is always a lesson to be found. Usually, a lesson of what not to do. Sadly, humans have a way of ignoring those messages and are doomed to repeat history again and again. Come along as Danielle and Cassie discuss disastrous tales of death in Yellowstone, and if you listen closely and are open to learning something new, you may just survive your next visit.

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Sources: Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park. NPS. Washington Post. NPS Suffragettes.

Transcript

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Death is a frequent visitor in raw nature, and yellowstone national park, despite the

0:06.8

cabins and roads, is raw nature.

0:10.0

The park is the untamed and unfenced wildlife and the immoral energy of thermal wonders.

0:16.7

It cannot be treated lightly.

0:18.7

When it is, it erupts in death.

0:21.0

We have seen other visitors in the park who have left the paths and boardwalks.

0:25.7

We have seen visitors in the park who sat their children on bears in order to take a picture

0:29.9

– they were lucky.

0:32.1

The park is not Disneyland, Rocky Mountain version.

0:35.9

Nor is it a zoo with moths and fences separating the wild in the domesticated.

0:40.6

For all the trappings of men, it is wilderness.

0:43.9

And the man who fails to accept it is such dice.

0:47.6

More money for more rangers to enforce the park's rules would help, but until that time

0:52.1

we urge all visitors and urge all Montana and Wyoming residents to warn visitors again

0:57.5

and again to obey signs in the park.

1:00.1

And to remember that Yellowstone National Park is wild, the park is raw nature and it

1:05.5

can kill.

1:06.9

Welcome to National Park After Dark.

1:30.3

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of National Park After Dark.

1:34.5

I'm Danielle.

1:35.5

I'm Cassie and we're excited to have you all back this week and Danielle is excited

1:41.3

to tell us something that she's doing.

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