[Geysers] OF Visitor Education Center

[Tom Kearney]

I really don't think of "geyser flush" as directed towards the visitors 
personally.  It describes the traffic jam just after the eruptions.



>From: "Paul Strasser" <upperbasin at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
>To: "'geyser observation reports'" <geysers at wwc.edu>
>Subject: RE: [Geysers] OF Visitor Education Center
>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:47:51 -0700
>
>Tom Kearney wrote, in response to a query of mine:
>
><<The law enforcement rangers at OF have been calling it the "geyser flush"
>for at least the 10 summers that I've been working in YNP.>>>
>
>Oh, I've heard visitors and their actions called even ruder names. I'm just
>stunned that this term got through the vetting of the document.
>
>Have you ever seen the "unofficial visitor center logbook" that was kept
>behind the desk in the mid to late 70s and beyond?  This is where
>naturalists and other NPS people placed their, uh, thoughts about many
>things.  Sometimes cute, sometimes rather "unkind" of certain
>nationalities...
>
>But the NPS wouldn't put this stuff into a public document.
>
>Yet they did include the term "geyser flush."
>
>Clearly, people who spend a lot of time in the park may have some rather
>rude terms for some visitors.  It's just weird to see the g.f. term in an
>official document.  There is no way this can be construed as a 
>complimentary
>or neutral term, that's all.
>
>I'm just as guilty as the next person of thinking rude terms to describe
>some visitors (and their actions).  But I wouldn't use them in public - 
>even
>here.  The thing is - the OFVEC EA is an incredibly public document.
>
>Paul Strasser
>
>
>
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