A parkgoer at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico recently dropped a bag full of Cheetos at the caverns. NPS “At the scale of human perspective, a spilled snack bag may seem trivial ...

Robert Melnick, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, discusses the consequences of leaving a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The Cheetos slogan, dangerously cheesy ...

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When a recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico dropped a bag of Cheetos inside one of the caves, losing a snack was probably an inconvenience. But to the tiny microorganisms ...

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 ...

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.

Other impacts are completely avoidable.” Rangers recently found a bag of Cheetos (still full of food) dropped off the trail in the Big Room, which is the largest single cave chamber by volume in ...