Docudrama hasn’t hurt Yellowstone

A cable television docudrama depicting a cataclysmic eruption of the Yellowstone National Park “supervolcano” has not drawn concern from folks making plans to visit the popular park, officials say.

“There’s been no impact on reservations whatsoever,” said Scott Cote, executive director of operations for park concessionaire Xanterra Parks & Resorts. “It was interesting, and it was entertainment, but evidently people aren’t taking it all that seriously.”

Cote said this week that reservations for park lodging are on par with the last two or three years.

The docudrama, “Supervolcano,” was shown over the last two weekends on the Discovery Channel. The premise was that an enormous volcano at the heart of Yellowstone goes off for the first time in 640,000 years.

“As a geologist, I found the drama fascinating, but the thing to remember: It’s about an extremely unlikely event,” said Henry Heasler, the park’s supervisory geologist.

From Associated Press