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The work looks like chalk pastels which will wash away. But might be oil pastels (looks like she's holding an oil crayon) which ain't cool.
It's acrylic paint, probably water-based but not something that just washes away easily. And it would wash away onto other things anyhow. Her likely saving grace is that she's shapely. Somebody will want to "educate" her on morality.
The most disturbing thing about this story is the evidence that social media motivates people to do things just so they can document them online. I think a lot of animals are dying in YouTube "hunting" videos for similar reasons (copycats and one-upmanship).
I recall visiting some of the National Parks as a kid- this would have been in the early 1960's when we made those trips- ie, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier, Badlands, Mt. Rushmore- and I think I remember seeing signs instructing people not to remove any vegetation, but I don't remember seeing anything about not picking up rocks, and naturally we wouldn't have chiseled anything out of natural rock formations or anything like that. So we picked up some gorgeous stones and some rocks off the ground every where we went, and amassed quite a collection by the time we finished with the trip. We brought them home, tumbled and polished them, and I now have the collection on my coffee table in a pretty vase. At the time, picking up rocks ( never vegetation) seemed to be an acceptable thing to do.
When we took a trip to some of those parks in 1995 with the family, I noticed there were signs everywhere, in addition to not picking vegetation or feeding the wildlife ( of course), signs instructing visitors not to pick up rocks or stones from the ground inside the national parks. I was disappointed, but we complied with the signs. But I wondered why the addition of such instructions not to pick up rocks or stones that had fallen to the ground, and decided perhaps it had something to do with the massive increase in visitors to national parks over the years, and the reality that some folks wouldn't limit themselves to a few rocks, but would take everything that wasn't nailed down, and chisel out anything they wanted additionally. So better to stop the potential defacement of the parks by not allowing anything to be taken out of them. At least that was my speculation.
When I was visiting parks in the 1950's and 1960's, and for that matter when I wanted to pick wildflowers by the side of the road near home, my parents, ever wise, told me, "If you picked some flowers, it wouldn't harm anything. However, consider that if everybody did it, and if you can then they should be allowed to, what would happen. There'd be no more wildflowers for anyone to enjoy."
Same thing here. They didn't let me pick up things in the national or state parks even then, though, for much the same reason; maybe they were ahead of their time.
If this idiot woman gets to paint on rocks in the national parks, then EVERYBODY should get to. Imagine what that would do - and nothing of nature or history would be preserved at all. Not that that matters to the "it's all about me" crowd.
Oh, and the sound of little goat hooves tippy tapping across the bridge has become positively deafening in here.
I've always been taught when visiting a park to only take pictures and leave only footprints. If I see something beautiful such as a flower or whatever, I want to leave it so someone else can enjoy it.
This person putting these ugly pictures on the rocks is disturbing the natural beauty that surrounds her. It is vandalism and she should be charged for it.
Okay, as a nature lover this REALLY ****** me right off! Look at some of her "art work" (which looks like kindergarten doodles)
Crater Lake National Park:
Yosemite National Park:
Death Valley’s Telescope Peak:
Zion National Park:
Canyonlands National Park:
I don't know what's more disgusting, the fact she's essentially graffitying (is that even a word?) national parks or the fact her "art work" would be something a kindergartner would view as garbage!
OK I think you made your point, but it's clear you are in the vast minority in your view. Was the incident legal behavior? Obviously not. Was it socially acceptable behavior? Obviously, no one want to visit a national park to view natural beauty and see some ugly painted happy face. The majority of society says no it is not acceptable. It's time to respect that. You only joined a few days ago? Did you join for the sole purpose of arguing a topic? If so, you probably will not remain a member for long. Regardless, it's probably time for you to move on to another topic.
It's pretty interesting how many people have threatened me on this website. It's like "no, you disagree with me? Well, you'll certainly not be allowed to post here for long!" That's a pretty odd attitude for an entire website, wouldn't you say?
As for the remainder of your post, I didn't know "being in the minority" meant "you're wrong." Now I do. Or something. Nobody said that people would be happy to see a painted face on a rock. I said it's no different than a caveman painting. I just checked and that's still correct. All you guys have is "no ...no it's not!" Yeah ...yeah it is.
I think we should get Raymond Reddington on the case to find her!
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Plus she's hot!
