Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1st, 1872. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park established in the United States, while also being the first national park created in the world. Yellowstone National Park encompasses about 3,468 square miles and is home to hundreds of different types of bird, mammal and fish species, vast forests and grasslands as well. Recreationists and tourists flock from all around the world to seek the many recreational and sightseeing opportunities that Yellowstone withholds. Recreational opportunities include hiking, camping, fishing, …show more content…
The four Native American Tribes that resided in the area where Crows, Blackfeet, Shoshones and Nez-Perce. Even though the voyage was just passing through the area in 1806, they saw the opportunity in the biodiversity and the area and knew they must return later. Later in 1869, another expedition took place that lasted about a moth but convinced explorers in the expedition that this area needed to be set aside as protected area or national park. In 1871, an explorer by the name Ferdinand Hayden took to the area and created a comprehensive report that he later turned into President Grant, who a year later then created it as Yellowstone National Park. From 1886 to 1916 the US Army oversaw management of the park until the creation of the National Park Service in 1916 (Organic Act). The Organic Act allows the United States Congress to establish territory in the United States and specifies how it is to be governed, or an agency to manage certain federal lands. Further on in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Reorganization of …show more content…
Activities such as finding desirable habitat and mates, avoiding predators, protecting young, and establishing territories are all dependent on the acoustical environment. To continue with these activities, animals are being forced to adapt to increasing noise levels. In general, a growing number of studies indicate that animals, like humans, are stressed by noisy environments. When these effects are combined with other stressors such as winter weather, disease, and food shortages, sound impacts can have important implications for the health and vitality of wildlife populations within a park. Today, noise levels in park transportation corridors are many times the natural level and we are seeing an astonishing increase in Yellowstone National Park. Human collaboration with the ecosystem has quickly spread disease to Yellowstone’s wildlife, which has shown to have contrary effects on populations of wildlife. Yellowstone could endure a series of changes in the future due to climate change, land use, and invasive species. Some of these factors could intensely alter the land within Yellowstone National Park. Studies have shown that human interference in natural ecological processes may be the reason for
Yellowstone is the worlds first national park. It was origanally home to Native Americans who lived in the Yellowstone area for at least 11,000 years.The U.S. Army was first commissioned to oversee the park just after its establishment in late 1960. In 1917, administration of the park was transferred to the National Park Service. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2), mostly comprising lakes, rivers canyons and mountain ranges. The national park is located primarily in the state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congressand signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
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
Created in 1872 by the department of the Interior, the park was developed by congress for preservation of its "natural curiosities or wonders and prohibiting wanton destruction of its fish and game" (defenders). Wolves were protected in Yellowstone.
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
area’s native wolf and grizzly bear population. Tourism to the area has also prompted Yellowstone’s Lake Trout problem, believed to
So far it has become evident that humans do not have a positive impact on the overall ecosystem of Yellowstone we have seen bear’s feeding patterns skewed, as well as elk populations devastated. There is yet another animal within yellowstone that has been impacted in a negative way by humans. John P. Beckmann is a conservation scientist who conducted research with several other scientists on the harvesting of energy and natural resources near or in yellowstone. When conducting his research he noticed that the harvesting of energy resources near yellowstone was affecting the pronghorn population. A subclaim that I can derive from my research on this topic is that the harvesting of energy and natural resources makes it tough to keep humans out of the way of
From what I had learned, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park ever to be established in the world. It had over 3,500 square miles of beautiful scenery and wildlife. The park itself was mostly located in Wyoming, however, less than 5% was located in Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone has been a park since March 1st, 1872, and since then there have been hundreds of thousands of tourists that go there each year to see the amazing things it has to offer. Old Faithful, one of Yellowstone's main attractions, is a
Climate change will have a direct impact in the future of the park. Summer heat levels will become a norm that could be damaging to the Yellowstone environment. “All of natuires resources can be leveled with the astronomical amount of heat that will be produced based on climate change. the first evaluation of how climate change will affect the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, is a joint project of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a nonprofit that advocates for carbon emission reductions by drawing attention to the likely consequences of climate change, and the Greater
Today was an exciting day, my family and I went on a trip to the Yellowstone National Park! I was shocked at the history of the park. The park has been around for almost 11,000 years. We had to take a plane because it is located almost in all of Wyoming, but does go into Montana and Idaho, so I got to visit three states. It is one of the United States well known parks and visited by millions, including myself. The tour guide was very helpful in giving us information about the park. The earliest visit recorded was back in the 1800s. The people of Montana did not want development of the land that lead to President Ulysses S. Grant to preserve the land and make it a park. The people refused to have mining and logging to destroy their land.
Fearing for the preservation of buffalo and Native Americans alike, Catlin proposed the creation of a national park; this idea would later bear fruit with the creation of the national park system beginning with Yellowstone Park in 1872
Forests were largely regarded as dangerous up until that point; uncharted lands that could only be made safe for an expanded society by cutting and clearing them. After pieces of bark from “The Mother of the Forest” were displayed in New York in 1854, naturalists, journalists and artists journeyed to California to document the sequoias (Hawken 39). Without their accounts, both written and visual, the wonder of that land may not have been understood by members of the government back in Washington. Eight years after the Yosemite Land Grant, Yellowstone became the first national park in the United
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
Between all of the oil companies and the railroads that supported them, there was quite a bit of forest that had to be knocked down to accommodate the big companies. The first national park that protected these great lands was founded in 1872 by Ulysses S. Grant and it was named Yellowstone national park. This prevented anybody from destroying the wildlife to make room for big business empires such as Rockefeller and Vanderbilt’s companies. After this national park was founded, many more were put into place to protect the wildlife for future generations to
Beginning in the 1920s, state parks were becoming more systematized. There were many places that were great to build a national park, but there were some places that were not as desirable for a national park, so these places were turned into state parks. However, the main point of creating a state park was to create more places for people to visit, especially for people who were unable to travel as far as the west to
It is believed that Native Americans inhabited the lands of what is now Yellowstone National Park for more than 11,000 years, until approximately 200 years ago, when European settlers began to drive many of them from their homelands. In 1872 Yellowstone was declared the world’s first national park as a way to preserve and protect the land for the “benefit and enjoyment of future generations.” (National Park Service) Yellowstone National Park covers a vast area in the Northwestern United States. Its landscape is very complex and ever changing thanks to the many geological forces that are found there. In fact, the unique geological features such as the geysers, hot springs, steam vents, among many others, are what lead to