The New Mexico park says that a discarded snack bag may seem trivial but the impact to the ecosystem can be huge, urging ...

once crawled up the main corridor at Carlsbad Caverns to log everything that humans left behind. “So this is just one thing ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park has a strict policy for visitors: plain water only. A dropped Cheetos snack bag had an ...

Park Service employee Erich B. Koenig discovered spilled junk food inside New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns in 2023. His post ...

Staff at Carlsbad shared that a visitor left behind a bag of Cheetos in the Big Room- the largest single cave chamber by ...

For the person that left a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, it was just trash. But it created an easily ...

To the owner of the snack bag, the impact is likely incidental. But to the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact.” ...

Recently, a careless visitor to Carlsbad National Park dropped a Cheetos bag in a cavern leading to ‘world-changing’ impact ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park rangers pounced into action after a visitor left a bag of Cheetos that inhabitants of the ...

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home. The ...

A full Cheetos bag found at Carlsbad Caverns made national news as the National Park Service worked to raise awareness for ...

A bag of Cheetos that was dropped on the ground at Carlsbad Caverns National Park had a large impact on the cave’s ecosystem, ...