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Posted on 04/10/2026 12:25:26 PM PDT by xxqqzz
YELLOWSTONE, Wyo. — The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently announced that a Texas man was sentenced after pleading guilty to walking off the designated boardwalk in a thermal area in Yellowstone National Park.
A release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office says that Eric Bedient, 50, of Frisco, Texas, was sentenced to five days’ incarceration on March 31 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie Hambrick.
According to court documents, Bedient left the boardwalk and walked directly on several fragile and dangerous hydrothermal features in the Mammoth Hot Springs area.
Those features included Canary Spring, Mound Terrage, Palette Hot Spring and Jupiter Terrace.
The release states that the sentence reflects the extensive nature of the violation, the damage Bedient’s footprints left behind and his failure to educate himself about Yellowstone National Park’s regulations.
“Yellowstone’s thermal areas are among the most dangerous natural features in the world,” said U.S. Attorney Darin Smith. “Mr. Bedient’s disregard for the law could have cost him his life. Prosecuting crimes like this deters others from similar conduct — and from risking becoming thermal soup. We will continue to hold individuals accountable to protect lives and preserve this unique, irreplaceable landscape when their actions threaten these national treasures for future generations.”
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Eric Bedient wasn’t very oBedient.
Good. Stupid tourists like him are the ones who walk up to bison for a selfie and then sue the park when he gets trampled.
Every few weeks he have some moron climb the off limits Morro Rock in Morro Bay, CA. They get saved, then arrested and transported to the county jail in the middle of no where then they are issued a written citation. They have to wait on the county bus or get a ride/uber back to MB. It discourages others from climbing the rock.
I’m kinda leaning towards Darwinism on this one...they should have a posted policy that if you are off trail, and you fall into one of the hot springs, there will be no rescue or recovery attempts...you will become one with nature.
That’s what happens when a legitimate STATE park instead becomes an unconstitutional NATIONAL park...
Yellowstone is a ticking timebomb
at some point in the future all of these delicate ecosystems will be completely wiped out
at some point in the future all of these delicate ecosystems will be completely wiped out
Until then, tourists should stay on the danged boardwalks...
I love Yellowstone and this sentence is not, in and of itself, out of line. However, the guy would have just gotten a stern talking to had he pushed an old woman in front of a moving train in New York.
The only legitimate reason for getting off the boardwalk would be to go pet one of the cute grizzlies or get a selfie with a moose.
Several bison have somehow become part of my cattle herd. Going on a decade or so. They keep getting pregnant, so there is a bull somewhere but I’ve never seen it. I have 19-20 now, and I castrate all the males.
I made an estray report after a year and the vet checked for a chip and we’ve got nothing. He’s been saying he’ll do a DNA test but never gotten around to it.
Sold a few steers to some creepy group that lets dentists go shoot them.
I don’t let them in the feed pen and they still stick around. They think they’re cows and would probably get on a truck to market without fuss.
Especially if that moose bit your sister.
It’s not the bison that is the problem in a thermal area, it’s the hot water in the ground. I always remember the story of the guy who jumped in a pool to save his dog. People said don’t do it but he did anyway. As soon as he got in he said he wished he hadn’t done it and promptly died. The water is clear as a cold pool but it is hotter than boiling.
Five days in jail is better than becoming one with Mother Earth.
The jail term he can whine about afterwards.
Aren’t they valuable?
Seems like whoever lost it would want it back.
Democrat tourists don’t seem to understand what
large amounts of people stomping
around in a delicate area can do.
I see it here in Hawaii.
That is why our big cities are sewers!
They’re all run by Democrats!
If you want to see nature up close
in a sensitive area hire a guide.
It is mostly for your own safety.
Otherwise obey the rules!
I worked at the summit of
Mauna Kea for 10 years,
I can’t remember how many
tourists, hurt themselves,
interrupted our day, caring for them,
or removing the mess they created.
Ever see what a mess a Snow boarder
makes when they find out that
small rock way down there, is as
big as a truck?
It takes two hours or more
to get you to an ER.
Or you take your rental two wheel drive car
on a road marked 4WD only.
and that car ends up wreaking and the
tourist is dead.
Been to the scenes done that.
cleaned up the mess.
People seem to lose all inhibitions there at Yellowstone .
You get to see raw stupidity in all its glory.
It’s been a few years but I seem to recall someone falling into one of those thermal pools.
I pity the folks that have to try to gather what remains that may be left.
Meat’s a bit dry for burgers, but the bison chili they make @ Old Faithful Inn Dining Room is to die for.
https://www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com/restaurant/old-faithful-inn-dining-room/
It wasn't that prompt. I think he died the next day, after around 20 hours of agony. His eyes went as white as two poached eggs. One of the people who pulled him out got serious burns.
For a few days after, the pool erupted like a geyser several times. They think the dog's body messed up its internal thermochemistry.
You would think someone would look, yes. But no one came looking when we made a report. Or didn’t care. Or the owner died and his kids didn’t know to look.
They can hop a standard cattle fence easily or just press against the wire and break it. So they very well could have come from 1500 miles away.
And they are native. So maybe they just belong here. We have a cliff where my wife’s tribe (Apache) just drove them off the cliff in numbers back in the day.
They are super protective of the herd, kind of like a donkey. So I don’t mind them at all.
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