Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This undated photo provided by Carlsbad Caverns National Park shows a bag of Cheetos that was dropped off ...

That one bag of the dusty orange snack made a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, the park said in a Facebook post. A parkgoer at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico recently ...

National Park Service officials got a little snarky with their serious message after crews rushed to stop the impact of a bag of Cheetos that was left inside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

The bright orange bag was spotted off trail by a ranger during one of the regular sweeps that park staff make through the Big Room, the largest single cave chamber by volume in North America ...

Cheetos are a no-go, and the recent park visitor who dropped a bag full of them created a “huge impact” on the cave’s ecosystem, the park said Friday in a Facebook post. “At the scale of ...

“To the owner of the snack bag, the impact is likely incidental. But to the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact,” park officials said Danielle Jennings is a Writer/Reporter at ...

A small bag recently had a “huge impact” on a cave at a national park. Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico hosts thousands of visitors a day who tour the caves. “Incidental impacts ...

A thrown away bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Cavern National Park / NPS The Carlsbad Cavern National Park had their day disturbed by a carelessly discarded bag of Cheetos chips and took the time to ...

A bag of Cheetos gets dropped and left on the floor. Seems inconsequential, right?Hardly.Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing ...