Park rangers and volunteers collect tons of trash left behind by visitors each year as part of an ongoing battle to keep ...

After a visitor dropped the snack in Carlsbad Caverns, the “foreign detritus” sparked mold and microbial growth that ...

A simple bag of Cheetos is responsible for causing a major issue at a national park in New Mexico that has park officials ...

Small things can have big effects. A bag of Cheetos in the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns had an outsized affect on the ...

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

Rangers recently found a bag of Cheetos (still full of food) dropped off the trail in the Big Room, which is the largest ...

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

A bag of Cheetos that was dropped on the ground at Carlsbad Caverns National Park had a large impact on the cave’s ecosystem, ...

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

To the owner of the snack bag, the impact is likely incidental. But to the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact.” ...

The rangers' kits can include gloves, trash bags, water, bleach mixtures for decontamination, vacuums and even bamboo ...

Bag of Cheetos dropped at US National Park could have 'World-changing' ramifications, rangers at the park say.