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

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

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

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

The salty morsels of processed corn, made soft by thick humidity, triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A recent visitor to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico got the munchies in one of the caves and left behind some ...

It’s pretty simple — leave no trace. But at least one person didn’t get the message and left behind a bag of Cheetos at ...