National Park, California And Nevada Mountains Of California

Yosemite National Park is a beautiful park that is just hours away from San Francisco and has some of the best hiking and scenic areas found in our National Parks. Camping at Yosemite can be a challenge though. All of the campsites within Yosemite are on a reservation system that fills up in seconds after the dates are opened. Seriously! If you know you want to camp within the park, please plan way ahead of time to secure a spot. When making a reservation make sure you are signing up for an RV or a tent space. If you are tent camping, know that you will have to park a little bit away and carry your gear in as there is no space for you to park next to your tenting spot. Yosemite camping can get

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, extends for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km), that covers land in two North American countries! With a distance of 3,000 miles, the Rockies must have a variety of physical features and landscapes that makes it an attractive area to tour and explore. However, all of the human interest in this mountain range could come at a devastating cost. Disturbances such as resource extraction, tourism/settlement, and farming in the Rocky Mountain region must cease because they are causing major, irreversible environmental degradation.

Yosemite National Park, is a beautiful piece of nature it is a 195 mile nature getaway from the urban life that is lived San Francisco, CA and 315 miles away from the fast pace and overwhelming life that is lived in Los Angeles CA. This place is like no other in the beauty of its nature. The park is “747,956 acres, and is the home to hundreds of wildlife species and thousands of Yosemite plants” (U.S. Nat. Park Service). Yosemite is known for so many beautiful features, from its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves and biological diversity. And also for its two rivers which are the Tuolumne and Merced rivers. These rivers begin in the park and flow as far as west to the

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is located in the state of New Mexico, in the United States. It contains a show cave, the main feature. The cavern is a limestone type, which was created by a reaction involving rainwater and hydrogen sulphide-rich brine (salt concentrated water). This created a corrosive sulphuric acid which carved the main chambers into what they are today.

Yosemite Falls is a hanging waterfall created by glacial erosion. As the glacier moved, it carved a U-shaped valley through the mountain and to the Yosemite Valley.(Nature’s Theatre) The Yosemite Creek feeds the waterfall. It starts from the rim of the fall with the creek, then the water drops 1,400ft to the middle gorge. The middle section drop of 600 ft. is hidden from view. The lower part of the waterfall has a drop of 300 ft where the water flows into the Merced River. Yosemite Fall is ephemeral, or seasonal, meaning that it doesn’t run all the time. In the winter, the waterfall has a low flow due to the cold temperatures and frozen water. As the water falls down the waterfall, the water vaporizes and supercools. Ice forms on the cliff, and a ice cone at it’s base. When the sun shines on the fall, it melts the frozen ice and huge slabs break off and fall to the ground below. In the spring, the snow pack melts Yosemite Falls is at it’s peak flow. During the summer, from about late July- August, the waterfall is completely dried up. Yosemite Falls is known as the fifth highest waterfall in the world, and as Yosemite’s premier waterfall. It is the first waterfall you see as you turn into the Yosemite Valley. concluding sentence(Yosemite Nature Notes-Episoode

Mesa Verde National Park on the Colorado Plateau contains many geological aspects of interest, including its sedimentary rock layers, its canyons, its alcoves utilized by ancient people and how these alcoves were formed. Mesa Verde National Park is located in the southwest corner of Colorado, close to the Four Corners area, on top of a high mesa overlooking the Mancos River (Harris et al. 2004). The park, covering 81 square miles, consists of several main sedimentary formations that are characteristic to the park (Encyclopedia Britannica 2015). Canyons are carved into the sedimentary rock, with the cave dwellings found high on their steep walls. These dwellings are an especially unique aspect to the Mesa Verde National Park, and are built out of large alcoves. The alcoves were produced by weathering and erosion of the sedimentary rock type. To better understand how these alcoves formed, we must understand the geology of Mesa Verde National Park and how it has developed over history.

Mesa Verde National Park, located in Montezuma County, Colorado, was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. This United States landmark was designated for the preservation of several Puebloan archeological sites and the vast geologic history exhibited within the 52,485 acres of land occupied by Mesa Verde. The Ancestral Puebloans, or Mesa Verdeans, associated with the archeological sites of Mesa Verde National Park, lived in the Mesa Verde region from the mid-sixth century to the end of the thirteenth century.[3]

Berkeley County is located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. As of the 2015 census the estimated population was 111,901. The county was formed in 1772 and some believe it to be named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt others believe it was named in honor of Sir William Berkeley. The largest city in Berkeley County is Martinsburg; the Town of Hedgesville is located next to Martinsburg. The Town of Hedgesville has a population of 320, it is considered urban while the surrounding areas are rural, farming communities. The median income in Berkeley County in 2010-2014 was $55,100; 14.4 % of the residents in Berkeley County live below the poverty level. The race/ethnicity make-up of Berkeley County is: white alone – 88%, Black alone – 7%, Hispanic - 4% and Asian alone - 1%. In 2016 the population of Tomahawk Intermediate is 600 students, the race/ethnicity breakdown is: white alone – 512, black alone – 22, Asian – 7, Hispanic – 32, Pacific Island – 1, and two or more races – 30.

Yosemite was first protected in 1864 by Abe Lincoln,but it was actually a park in 1890 buy Robert Johnson and John Muir.You can find Yosemite in the granet heart of California (in the middle).But with in 12 acres wide!In the center of California.”What makes Yosemite a special place?” you might ask, well Native americans were the first people to live for a long time of the Valley.At Yosemite you can go hiking,backpacking, camp, tours with rangers,interpretive programs, and biking.Or you can visit waterfalls and glaciers.Can you believe this that a waterfall is as tall as 2 ½ thousand feet drop good luck taking a shower with that.Yosemite National Park became a National Park because of

Erosion continues to alter the geology of Yosemite Valley, causing many alterations in the landscape. Erosion causes frost wedging, which is an occurrence of when water freezes and expands in the crack of rocks, which wedge them and break them apart. Also, earthquakes are relatively common in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and tend to also play an important role in the changing landscape of Yosemite Valley. The most considerable form of erosion that is acting on Yosemite right now is rock falls. While most of them are pretty insignificant, large rockfalls prove to be catastrophic and help to sculpt Yosemite

In regards to the geologic components of Yosemite National Park, it essentially has two main parts. The first part is the deposition and deformation of the metamorphic rocks and the emplacement of the granitic rocks during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods. The second part is the uplift, erosion, and glaciation that took place with the rocks during the Cenozoic period. Yosemite National Park is relatively helpful in regards to observing the display of its geologic changes. When the Cretaceous period was ending which was roughly 65 million years ago, the granitic core of the range started to become

Many people might assume this, since it's one of the most well known parks in the United States. However, Yosemite did not officially become a national park until nearly two decades after Yellowstone. Sequoia also came before

Yosemite National Park is located in central California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The amazing views of the National Park were created greatly from glacial activity. It has produced many waterfalls, U-shaped canyons, and the iconic mountain, Half Dome. There are some of the tallest waterfalls in the United States located at the park. Yosemite Falls is one of

The Upper Yosemite Falls hike is fast becoming one of the most popular hikes in Yosemite. Being the tallest waterfall in North America, climb this day hike and you will be rewarded with some amazing vistas of the Yosemite Valley from the top of the falls. The reward is worth the effort! Be forewarned, on 3-day summer weekends, expect lines of people hiking up to Upper Yosemite Falls like a trail of ants.

Lava flows of rhyolite and basalt have flowed through parts of Yellowstone as recently as 70,000 years ago. These lava flows destroyed everything in their paths while moving slowly at a rate of a few hundred feet per day, flowing months, or sometimes even several years. They are thick and cover as much as 130 square miles. They have nearly filled the Yellowstone Caldera, and spilled beyond the caldera’s border. These lava flows are responsible for forming four of the nine named plateaus in