Actor Pierce Brosnan was cited twice for walking in thermal areas near Mammoth Terraces/NPS file, Diane Renkin

Actor Pierce Brosnan has been ordered to appear in federal court in Yellowstone National Park on charges of walking in a thermal area of the Mammoth Terraces.

The two citations filed against the James Bond actor in the U.S. District of Wyoming carried few details, other than that the offenses occurred on November 1 and that Brosnan's mandatory court appearance in the Yellowstone Justice Center is scheduled for January 23, 2024.

Yellowstone holds the world's greatest collection of thermal features, with some 10,000. The park enables safe viewing of hot springs, geysers, mudpots, and fumaroles through the use of boardwalks, defined trails, and patrolling rangers. Over the years, numerous people have suffered injury or death for walking off boardwalks or designated trails into the park's thermal areas. Park warnings stress that the ground in hydrothermal areas is fragile and thin, and there is scalding water just below the surface.

Back in July 2022 a park visitor somehow fell into Abyss Pool, a hot spring with a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. All that was found was a foot floating on the surface.

In June 2016 an Oregon man who wanted to see just how hot one feature in the Norris Geyser Basin was died when he fell into a spring with a temperature of nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit. No remains were recovered.