Wyoming outlaws citizen science, bans photos of Yellowstone

Saturday, May 16, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Michelle Kennedy Hogan
Inhabitat.com
05/15/15

Imagine: you’re in Yellowstone National Park and it’s the trip of a lifetime. And you’ve taken the picture (or two) of a lifetime. Perhaps it’s one of the geysers, or a magnificent sunset or a black bear playing in the trees. What if you submitted that photo to the National Weather Service for them to publish on their Facebook page or to a contest sponsored by the Forest Service? According to a new law in Wyoming, that could land you in jail.

It is now illegal in Wyoming to share data collected about the environment in Wyoming with the federal government. Huh? Yeah. Of course, the real reason for the law has nothing to do with pictures or the National Weather Service. Instead, it has a lot to do with the E.coli bacteria that seems to be running rampant in Wyoming waterways. Apparently, there is more bacteria than is deemed safe by federal standards and instead of confronting the issue and dealing with it, Wyoming has decided to threaten prison to anyone who might bring it up.

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