I have no problem with their being punished for breaking the law.
Just commenting on the claims that they caused immense damage. Which I have seen no evidence of. And which seems very unlikely.
I once camped overnight under an arch in Canyonlands National Park. Waay in the backcountry. It was a violation of park rule. But very cool.
Did I break the rule, and if caught could I have been fined? You bet.
Did I damage the arch? Don’t be silly. Nobody could even tell I’d been there at all.
The hummingbird is just depressions in the earth. I can see where walking around it and creating new depressions could be very damaging. This ain’t a stone arch. It’s depressions in the soil.
They could have gone anywhere, and they chose to be right on top of the artifact. A couple of hundred yards away would have made no difference to their mission.