00:54 More Tourist Trouble in Yellowstone Meteorologist Ari Sarslari explains how a guy was fined for walking off the boardwalk in Yellowstone Park. This coming just days after a string of people died jumping into thermal springs.

Yellowstone park officials fined a Chinese tourist $1,000 for venturing into a protected area of Mammoth Hot Springs to collect the water for "medicinal purposes."

The man, who was identified after a park investigation, admitted guilt, saying that he didn't read the rules/safety info given to him at the park entrance.

A Chinese tourist is in hot water with the law after venturing into a forbidden area at Yellowstone National Park's hot springs earlier this week.

Yellowstone officials said that the man, who was not named, was handed a "hefty fine" of $1,000 after an investigation into the incident revealed him as the culprit.

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A park spokesperson told ABC News that the fine was "stiff" but necessary , given "the irreplaceable nature of the thermal feature." Other tourists were fined $130 for venturing onto the springs in recent weeks.

Witnesses said the man reportedly broke through the delicate crust at Mammoth Hot Springs after he wandered on the Liberty Cap area to collect water from the hot springs.

Walking on the springs can damage or destroy bacterial mats that give the springs their brilliant colors and support the complicated ecosystems within.

"When people walk on them it actually makes like white footprints in the bacterial mat," Yellowstone Spokesperson Charissa Reid told the Associated Press. "Not only does it damage the bacterial mat but it also means that other people may be tempted to walk the same path."

The man later revealed that he collected the water for "medicinal purposes" and didn't read the rules/safety info given to him at the park entrance.

Aside the environmental impact, the thermal springs are also quite dangerous. Just last week, Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, when he ventured off the boardwalk and fell into the acidic hot spring. His body was never recovered.

All told, more than 20 people have been killed by boiling geysers and hot springs in Yellowstone.

A series of tourist-related controversies have hit Yellowstone in recent weeks. Two Canadian tourists put a bison calf into their vehicle because they thought it was abandoned and would die without their help. The calf was later euthanized because it was unable to rejoin the herd.

At least six other people were fined in recent weeks for venturing out of bounds and onto the Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, ABC News reported.