[Geysers] Data Logger downloads and other stuff

[Karen Low]

The visitor center will still have dataloggers on the geysers that they predict and traditionally download themselves.  Yes, the rest of them will not be downloaded at all during summer.  And to the best of my knowledge there will be no thermal clean-up this summer, except what interpretative rangers have time to do with their cleaning tools.  Hank Heasler cited safety concerns.  I don't think it is a staffing issue.  I suggest people take pictures of trash in geyser basins, and write letters of complaint to Yellowstone NPS, nationwide NPS, and your elected representatives on a national level.

Karen Low


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 From: Paul Strasser <upperbasin at comcast.net>
To: 'Geyser Observation Reports' <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Data Logger downloads and other stuff
 

 
Karen, are you saying that there will be
zero thermal; cleanup in the Firehole Basins the entire summer?
 
And that there will be zero logger
doqnloads the entire summer?
 
Why on earth would these decisions be made?
Is It staffing?
 
Paul Strasser
 
 

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From:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu
[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On
Behalf Of Karen Low
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
11:06 AM
To: geyser list
Subject: [Geysers] Data Logger
downloads and other stuff
 
Hey all,
 
Yesterday, at
Tour Guide Training, I asked Hank Heasler about the geyser data logger
downloads, and volunteered to help with them.  He said no, that he and
Cheryl will download them in the fall.  I asked about the geyser basin
cleaning volunteers, and he said there weren't going to be any based at Old Faithful this summer.  So I fully expect the
geyser basins to be trashed this summer.
 
And
about a certain person who complained about geyser gazers the other day.
 Sunday morning I went out up on the hill.  I chatted first with Bob
(I don't know his last name) who I'd seen out there the night before waiting
for Beehive.  Inez stopped as she went by and complained about the last
couple calls being unclear on her radio. I am not currently carrying a radio,
but I mentioned that perhaps it had been her location.  Bob mentioned
something about not many calls lately, and it may have been non gazers on the
channel.  I went and chatted with Michael Lang, Kristine B. and Jim S.,
all of whom I hadn't seen yet this spring.  Later, when I was looping the
hill grabbing what litter I could with my folding grabber (while still staying
on the boardwalk, of course), Inez was up by North Goggle.  I tried to
introduce myself, and she said that because I'd ignored her earlier, that we
were through.  I was a bit flabbergasted!  I could think of no
reason for my behavior, chatting with people I've known for years, could have
offended anyone!  So I think that a certain person was being unrealistic
in their expectations in regards to the the geyser gazer community.
 
Karen
Low
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