Drone

Dutchman Theodorus Van Vilet, of the Netherlands, pleaded guilty to crashing his drone into the Grand Prismatic Spring in August of this year. Now, a judge has ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and $2,200 in restitution. Grand Prismatic Spring, in The Midway Geyser Basin, is the park’s largest hot spring, measuring some 370 feet in diameter and is over 121 feet deep...

Yellowstone National Park officials have to deal with the same old problems, but also some new problems as well. The advent of flying drones created a problem recently when a Dutch man’s drone ended up falling into Grand Prismatic Spring and remains there, at the bottom...