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Talk about a hot mess. Old Faithful has been blowing its top for generations — but these days, Yellowstone National Park workers have another eruption to worry about: tourist junk. As of early September, Yellowstone’s Geology Team had removed more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks, and 280 hats from its hydrothermal areas, according to the Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory’s USGS page. That makes this a record-setting year. The park covers a staggering 2.2 million acres — or about 3,472 square miles of nature to tidy up. It gets 4.5 million visitors annually. And we’re not just talking…

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