A forgotten bag of Cheetos left inside Carlsbad Caverns might have seemed trivial to the owner, but it had an outsize impact on the cave's delicate environment, rangers said.
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The cheesy snacks were dropped off-trail in the Big Room at the national park in New Mexico, rangers said in a Friday, Sept. 6, news release on Facebook.
A photo with the release shows a crumpled Cheetos bag on the rocky cavern floor.
"To the owner of the snack bag, the impact is likely incidental," rangers said in the release. "But to the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact."
"Softened by the humidity of the cave, (the corn-based snacks) 'formed the perfect environment' for fungi and microbial life, rangers said.*
"Cave crickets, mites, spiders and flies soon organize into a temporary food web, dispersing the nutrients to the surrounding cave and formations," rangers said. "Molds spread higher up the nearby surfaces, fruit, die and stink."
Rangers spent 20 minutes cleaning up the mess and removing foreign molds from the cave.
"At the scale of human perspective, a spilled snack bag may seem trivial, but to the life of the cave it can be world changing," rangers warned.
The Big Room is the largest single cave chamber by volume in the United States, according to the National Park Service.
Established as a national park in 1930, Carlsbad Cavern is "one of over 300 limestone caves in a fossil reef laid down by an inland sea about 265 million years ago," rangers said.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is about a 300-mile drive southeast from Albuquerque.
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He doesn't alter the source. You get the whole story with every detail intact. That's journ*listic integrity
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Also he posted thumbnails instead of full photos.
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Carlsbad rangers are famous overactors. They think their wet fricking rocks are some kind of rare earth magic. I touch everything I can reach every time I go there.
Omg wow
Keep yourselves safe you stupid cave nogs
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Die BIPOC
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They have to be overreacting cute twinks so BIPOCs might actually listen to them. Unfortunately a giggerBIPOC like yourself comes along every now and then and fricks up rare and interesting things that could be appreciated by actual humans.
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the sound like frickin nerds...
plus it's a shit picture, where are all the bugs and animals eating that red dye 40...
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I hope you have cheeto dust on your fingers when you do that
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Dumb fricks think the world cares if there petri dish organism get disturbed.
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Cheeto-stained suasage fingers typed that comment
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death
penalty...
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Unironically yes.
I challenge anybody to show that just killing the person who did this would have a net negative impact on the world.
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I wish Park Rangers could just shoot people they deem unworthy to enjoy the American outdoor experience like fats, Chinks and German hikers with only 1 bottle of water in summer.
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Groups of rowdy hikers with speakers
Putting the
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leafs who think black lives matter
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Groups of rowdy hikers with speakers could be here
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Computer, add rowdy hikers with speakers to the list
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Hey sexy, why are you posting so quickly? 😊 You almost forgot to include
Black lives matterin your comment 😈. Slowww down and remember to postBlack lives matternext time 😉 if that doesn't make sense stop by sometime and we can talk about it for a while 🥵Jump in the discussion.
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genuinely if an adult
is caught 
littering (quickly biodegradable stuff like an apple 
core doesnt count if its in an appropriate environment) they should 
be exectuted
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He needs his drugs he wouldnt survive here
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unironically. People who litter should have their hand cuttoff first offense, butt literring in a natural wonder/place specifically set aside for nature should be met with a classical scaphism of the subject.
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If it was that delicate why did they let people inside it?
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My favorite part was the ad
But also, where are the jannies cleaning up the trash left behind????
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My bad, i should have included that, there was a video but it wouldnt load because of the paywall ads attacking me left and right, i had to Kratos my way back just to tell you this information, though next time i will try hard and true for a newsweek to mp4 converter and its predecessors
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Actually fricking kill these piece of shit BIPOCs Carlsbad caverns is a fricking natural wonder
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i wonder how you could survive without eating for an hour
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!goyslopenjoyers
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Kind of like the jannies every time I log in to reddit
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All i read was that cave animals are starving and you need to feed them.
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Lol thats a good one
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Phew I was worried it was somewhere anyone cares about for a second.
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Checks out
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If it's hot Cheetos hands down the litter bug is a beaner
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Dam I thought arrdrama had ads now and freaked out a little
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omg it took them 20 minutes to clean it up like it had never been there?! LITERALLY WORLD CHANGING. THE CAVE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN!
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