Cherry flower tourists warned that apparently innocent action could imprison you for a year
Washington, DC’s famous cherry flowers start to bloom and send the city of tourists who admire Capitol Hill while sending herds of tourists.
However, those who visit the Pitoresque tide basin, where flowers will soon be at the top, may not know that a simple action can imprison you for a year.
Choosing precious flowers or climbing tree branches is a crime according to federal laws.
Various regulations and arrangements state that intentionally destroying, cutting, breaking, injury or extraction in a national military park or the United States is illegal.
A criminal can be imprisoned for more than 15 days or more than a year ‘and every monument, sculpture, marker, guide or another structure, trees, shrubs or plants can be fined at least $ 10, falsified, injured, cut, cut or both “.
National Park Service Spokesman Mike Litterst, tourists called to tamper with leaves.
Please do not touch the flowers. Do not break the branches. Do not climb trees, ‘Litterst Fox News Digital.
Litterst, despite harsh penalties, although the National Park Service personnel often try to educate people, he added.
Washington, DC’s cherry flowers begin to bloom, Capitol Hill illuminates the city while sending a flocks of tourists full of admiration
National Park Service Spokesman Mike Litterst called tourists to call the leaves to tamper
“There are absolutely crimes and federal regulations on the use of natural resources in the code,” he said.
But if we see people [doing that]We tend to use it as a moment that can be taught, not the opportunity to throw the book on them. ‘
Cherry flowers bloomed early in Washington and New York last year, and the flowers developed until mid -March.
Experts warned that this early fluoresis is a symptom of worldwide heating temperatures.
The famous cherry flowers in the country’s capital lived the oldest peak flowers in 20 years on March 17 – tied the second worst of the worst peak flowers.
This means that 70 percent of Yoshino cherry trees open the flowers along the national shopping center and tidal basin.
He came to the heels of one of Washington’s hottest recorded winters, and the temperatures rose to 80 degrees by the end of January, the earliest event in the registration.
Choosing precious flowers or climbing tree branches is a crime according to federal laws.
The oldest peak flowering record in history was reported on 15 March 1990. National Park Service data shows that trees bloom earlier and earlier because they were donated by Japan in 1912.
In 2021, the trees reached the summit on 28 March, and the same year Kyoto recorded the earliest flowers in more than 1,200 years.
According to Climate Central, winter is the fastest warming season in the country’s capital. An analysis of the non -profit organization has found that DC has added 20 days to the growth season since 1970.
National Weather Service data show that the average spring temperature in DC increased from 3.6 degrees from 1970 to 2023.
