3 cited for attempting to cook chickens in a Yellowstone hot spring

Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. • Cooking chickens in a Yellowstone hot spring landed three people in hot water.A park ranger heard that a group with cooking pots were hiking toward the park’s Shoshone Geyser Basin. The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring. A cooking pot was nearby, Yellowstone spokeswoman Linda Veress said.“Make dinner,” said defendant Eric Roberts, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, when asked Thursday what the group was up to in the Yell