{"id":85994,"date":"2017-01-19T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85994"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T01:54:11","slug":"canadians-plead-guilty-to-violations-at-parks-across-us-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/19\/canadians-plead-guilty-to-violations-at-parks-across-us-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians plead guilty to violations at parks across US West"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85996\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85996\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o.jpg\" alt=\"Three Canadians will be banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park (Pictured) and other crimes at parks across the Western U.S., park officials said Thursday.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15936848_1545570318791650_2188895315497600142_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy abilify online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/abilify.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/abilify.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (Photo: Yellowstone National Park\/ Facebook)&#8221; width=&#8221;2048&#8243; height=&#8221;1365&#8243; \/><\/a> Three Canadians will be banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park (Pictured) and other crimes at parks across the Western U.S., park officials said Thursday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YellowstoneNPS\">Yellowstone National Park\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BILLINGS, Mont.\u2014Three Canadians will be banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other crimes at parks across the Western U.S., park officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Justis Price Brown pleaded guilty during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman at the Yellowstone Justice Center, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were from the group High on Life SundayFundayz. An investigation last spring into the group&#8217;s travels revealed violations of park rules at Yellowstone, Zion, Death Valley and Mesa Verde national parks and Utah&#8217;s Corona Arch and Bonneville Salt Flats.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants also used drones in closed areas, rode bikes in a wilderness area and took commercial photographs without a permit, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being banned from public lands, Gamble and Lyakh were ordered to serve a week in jail and pay more than $2,000 in fines, restitution and community service payments. Brown agreed to fines and payments of more than $3,500, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two other men \u2013Hamish Cross and Parker Heuser \u2013pleaded guilty in the case in November.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zydena online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zydena.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zydena.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The defendants posted video and selfies of their travels on social media. Several are from Vancouver, British Columbia, and have a clothing line that they promote.<\/p>\n<p>Gamble&#8217;s attorney, Alex Rate, said his client and friends had been threatened and shamed on social media for what amounted to making bad decisions on a road trip. Their aim was to inspire people to explore the parks, and any money they made from the videos they posted was minuscule, Rate said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese young men have been through the wringer when it comes to public shaming,\u201d Rate said. \u201cThey understand the impact of their decisions and take responsibility for it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis professional online <a href=\"https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-professional.html\">https:\/\/bradencenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-professional.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk said in a statement that the penalties handed down Thursday \u201csend a strong and poignant message about thermal feature protection and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Oregon man died last June when he left a designated boardwalk and fell into a scalding hot spring at Yellowstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS, Mont.\u2014Three Canadians will be banned from federal lands for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[4427,2504,13979],"class_list":["post-85994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-banned","tag-canadians","tag-yellow-national-park","mauthors-matthew-brow","mauthors-matt-volz","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283044,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85994\/revisions\/283044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}