Yellowstone Yosemite And The Great Smokies

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 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

Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest and oldest national parks in American history. Yellowstone was the first park to be protected by private investment on March 1, 1872, and the first to be put under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1918, no doubt due to its unique and inspiring landscape and geothermal features. In fact, Yellowstone National Park is home to half of the world’s total hydrothermal features. These awesome attractions draw an incredible amount of visitors, an average of two to three million each year, to Yellowstone’s immense landscape. The park has a total size of 28,125 square miles, is found in three distinct states, and is considered to be one of the largest

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

Yosemite is well known for its beautiful sights and trails. There’s many things to do there that are enjoyable. The hike range from fairly easy to difficult. Besides that, there are lodges and other activities for people to do. This area is abundant with wildlife and different types of plants, which add to its beauty. The mist trail and vernal falls both offer incredible views of the waterfall and other surrounding scenery. It’s definitely worth the long hike to get at the top of vernal falls. It can be tricky getting up there and maneuvering around the rocks. It’s important to wear the right shoes, so you won’t fall and injure yourself. Many people get hurt at Yosemite each year by not following instructions and doing the right thing.

The Yellowstone fires of 1988 struck my interest in the first two weeks of readings. Being honest, I’ve never read much about the fires until now. These fires were started by a lighting storm. According to most records small fires were reported in June and everything seemed okay for the beginning of the summer. Then July came around and the whole summer was just about the fires. ("The Yellowstone Fires Of 1988")

First, the passage claims that Yellowstone fires cause tremendous damage to the park`s trees and other vegetation. However, the professor refuses this and says after the fire of 1988 the firs advantage was the proliferation of the vegetation. In the time of the fires the park was colonized with only a few kinds of plants, after 1988 fires the plants became diverse. For example, the trees that have been destroyed got replaced with another smaller plants that required open and unshaded area. She further explains, that some seeds required very high temperature in order to germinate.

The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are two of the most famous national parks in the Sierra Nevada Range. The Sierra Nevada range is located in California along the North American Plate. This range sits to the right of the San Andreas Fault and the Pacific Plate. Some referred to these parks as “The Land of Giants” which turns out to fit them quite well. The parks get this name due to the huge mountains, endless canyons and the world’s largest trees they are home for (“Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks,” USA Today). The Sequoia National Park was founded on September 25th, 1890, making it the second oldest park in the United States, and Kings Canyon National Park was established March 4th, 1940. The two parks are adjacent to one another and stretch over approximately 865,964 acres, which a little less than 97% is woods and wilderness. These are large tourist attractions and provide a treasured experience many people value greatly in their lives. The reason it is such a treasured experience to tourists is because of the many special aspects of the park that include the Giant Forest of Sequoias as well as Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney is known for having the highest peak south of Alaska at 14,494 feet above sea level (“Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks,” National Geographic).

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are located in the southern Sierra Nevada range. These parks are one of the few America's longest mountain range. Kings Canyon has many features to offer such as tall cliffs, green meadows, and waterfalls. These parks contain over two hundred marble caves, with the two parks combined they create the longest cave in California, it's called Liburn Cave. They're small and can be found in isolated sections of the park. These parks are managed by categories such as: rare or sensitive animals that can close entry, research and study, and some are delicate and dangerous. They first opened a cave in 1941 where visitors can walk the trail. They created systems to help the parks from any damage to the cave because

The Anthony Family decided to take a trip to yosemite national park to go camping. Their names were Vero, Chris, and Jacob. Vero at the time was pregnant and she decided to invite her niece Toni. Toni was so excited to be able to go on vacation with her aunt and uncle and cousin and cousin to be. Toni was looking forward to going have an adventure in the beautiful nature that surrounds her. She loves the outdoors and could stay outside the entire day going for, hikes,runs, and sitting in nature and admiring what a beautiful world God created for her.

These park features include the 2,000 foot tall mountains with the elevation changing all throughout the park, many trees, the hike trails, different wildlife, different plant life, noticeable landmarks, and the massive lake that made the national park famous. As previously mentioned, the volcanic eruption and collapse of Mount Mazama left a huge bowl shaped cardena. This resulted in the creation of a very large mountainous land area around what was once Mount Mazama. Thus, creating the 2,000 foot tall mountains that are currently around the lake in the national park today. Along the mountains and around the area, there are trees like any national park out there. The largest tree in the national park is ponderosa pine. The hiking trails is another main draw for visitors to Crater Lake. Surrounding Crater Lake is the 33 mile rim drive that is the opening to the parks hiking trails. These hiking trails include Cleetwood Cove Trail, Crater Peak, Garfield Peak, Lightning Springs, and Mount Scott, which is the park’s highest point at 8,929 feet. The traveling time around Crater Lake is approximately two hours. Like any national park, there is many different types of wildlife and plant life around the park. The wildlife around the park includes fish, deer, and black bears. The plant life around the park includes wildflowers, pine, and hemlock. There are many noticeable landmarks in Crater Lake, including Wizard Island. Wizard Island is the small volcanic island in the lake of Crater Lake. It is a 2400-2500 tall volcanic cinder cone and is 767 feet above water. It was created after Mount Mazama erupted and collapse and was responsible for sealing the floor of the caldera. Finally, Crater Lake is most famous for the lake within it. This is mostly due to the lake taking up most of the national park. Because this lake is cut off from any other streams and

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

During the summer of 1988 Aka,The summer of fire. Inside Yellowstone National Park 8 fires broke out and affected about half of the park of the park.Costing the park over $120,00 million dollars in damage.Almost 9,000 Firefighters were involved in putting out the fire.The damage to the fire was beyond belief,with many people disagreeing with how the fire was controlled.After this event many laws were changed to how fires can be put out or let to burn.After all of this,this event changed many people’s opinions on the laws of forest fires and letting them burn.All of these following sentences with be describing,displaying facts and the consequences and renewals for Yellow National Park.

The Yellowstone is known as one of six largest supervolcanoes in the world. Though this supervolcano has not erupted recently it does have continue to have volcanic activities. The previous eruption remains have been found outside of the Yellowstone National Park that link to the Yellowstone Caldera. Ben Ellis and Mark Darren, authors of the article “‘Super-eruptions’ and silicic volcanism from the Yellowstone volcanic field,” describes current volcanic activities of this area and how it has expanded and transition from its previous super-eruptions to what has happen now, and what changes could another volcanic reaction cause for this area. Ellis and Darren wrote that the “. . . evidence of volcanic activity is all around” (135). In this they were talking about Yellowstone.

In 1982, J. BRUCE GEMMEL climbed this volcano, and gave a vivid description to several volcano experts, including McClelland (1989). He described the main cone as HEAVILY VEGETATED with a great number of COLLAPSED CRATERS from the East Northwest, and West, Southwest. In addition, Gemmel stated that the most active of the three main craters actually included A LAKE OF ACID that spanned 500 meters wide! This lake is a GLOWING BLUE COLOR. The glow is caused by sunlight reflecting from ash and chemicals suspended in the