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Pierce Brosnan Cited For Allegedly Entering Yellowstone’s Protected Thermal Areas
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Pierce Brosnan has been ordered to appear in court in Wyoming next month after being cited for venturing off the approved trail and entering off-limits thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park.
The James Bond actor, 70, was issued citations for walking “in all thermal areas and w/in Yellowstone Canyon confined to trails and “violating closures and use limits” on Nov. 1.
He has been ordered to appear in court at the Yellowstone Justice Center on Jan. 23.
According to Yellowstone National Park’s website, the park is home to a variety of hydrothermal features, including geysers; hot springs; mudpots, which are acidic hot springs that dissolve the surrounding rock; fumaroles, or steam vents; and travertine terraces, which are hot springs that rise through limestone, depositing calcite into terraces.
In its guidelines for safely exploring the hydrothermal features, the park warns that more than 20 people have died from burns suffered after they entered or fell into Yellowstone’s hot springs.
Boardwalks and trails protect you and delicate thermal formations, the park warns. Water in hot springs can cause severe or fatal burns, and scalding water underlies most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.
Brosnan is reportedly in Wyoming filming the upcoming Western “Unholy Trinity,” alongside Samuel L. Jackson, at the Yellowstone Film Ranch.
TMX contributed to this article.
