Then there are the people who want to pretend they're setting a land speed record across the Bonneville Salt Flats. The park service has tried to prevent cars from driving on the Racetrack by digging a deep ditch that runs along the west side, parallel to the road. But it doesn't discourage motorcycles, bicyclists or some four-wheel drive vehicles. The researchers are the worst, says Dillenges. They see what's important to them and ignore others.
Paleontologists build fires with natural vegetation.
Geologists scratch the rocks with numbers to mark them. They put stakes and boxes around them. I'm always pulling up stakes around rocks. We've had some that asked to bungee transmitters to the rocks to turn on video cameras set around the Racetrack. The stuff would have to stay on the rocks for years.