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Yellowstone National Park officials have put out a news release to remind tourists not to approach, engage with, or otherwise irritate Bull Elk during mating season, which has started this month.

There has always been one thing I remembered from my elementary school days and that's the little Valentine's Day cards we would exchange in class.

List after list after list, people decide the "BEST" in Wyoming and keep getting it wrong.

"Don't pet the wildlife". This seems like a no-brainer to the average Wyomingite, but for some strange reason, a large percentage of our annual tourist population just doesn't get it.

It's a proven fact that Yellowstone National Park is one of the greatest places you can ever visit. However, for some tourists, it just isn't good enough. This is a throwback to one of the more famous tourist moments involving Yellowstone when tourists complained about the "trained bears".

The vehicles had it coming. Seriously. Bull elk during rut will aggressively attack just about anyone and anything. But, there was one infamous bull nearly 10 years ago that went out of his way to set a vehicle damage record.

I fully realize that the pic you're trying to get of a Yellowstone bison up close might be the highlight of your vacation. But, these geniuses are truly tempting fate.

When I think of my favorite viral moments from Yellowstone National Park, this is among the best of the best. It's that fun time when a bull elk took a severe dislike to a snowmobile and decided to challenge it (and everything else) to a fight.

If you visit Yellowstone National Park now, you'll find feeding bears solidly in the "don't" column. But, there was an era many years ago when people were not only allowed to feed bears in Yellowstone, the practice was sort of encouraged.

There are a lot of things people do to get that perfect picture. This should not be one of them.

Trying to get closer to bison is dangerous for many reasons. It's obvious these are large animals, but they're also wildly unpredictable. Yellowstone tourists learned this lesson the hard way a few weeks ago.

If a bison is displeased with you, it's not hard to tell. One tourist family learned this as they got too close to a bison calf and the elders let them know to back off.