![]() ![]() So, what exactly is happening? After all, with only a casual look, you can clearly see where terraces formed, dried up, then sprang back to life just a few feet away. We do have hot springs, but nothing, nothing quite like this.” I’m from northern Montana and you don’t get to see it up there very often. Standing on a boardwalk next to Pallet Spring, Dalton Brookie of Colstrip, Montana said, “It’s not something you get to go to in your backyard. But it concerns some because visitors love the hot springs so much. So the changes people are seeing are not that unusual. You might watch a feature come alive and next week it will be gone.” Yellowstone National Park Geologist, Jeff Hungerford said, “You will see change within a week or two. ![]() ![]() So I asked the scientists what was going on. One person visiting the park even stopped me in a parking lot to tell me about it. Recently several viewers contacted us or posted on social media that some of the hot springs were shutting down. If you’ve visited the Mammoth hot springs terraces in Yellowstone National Park more than once, you may have noticed it looked different than when you first saw it. ![]()
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