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Cow elk lounge on the shady lawns and tourists stroll with ice cream cones in hand to the sound of hammering on a recent summer day at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

Another tourist was spotted off the boardwalk in a thermal area—this time in Mammoth Hot Springs. And they were fined heavily for it.

Yellowstone National Park and tourism go hand-in-hand, for better or for worse.