Shenandoah National Park

Shenandoah National Park has breath-taking views and miraculous hikes that always leave visitors with a satisfied and content look on their face. The park sits on 200,000 acres of protected lands that is a haven to deer, songbirds, and an abundance of other animals resulting in a diverse ecosystem. Visitors can experience the park in multiple ways depending on what part of the park they wish to explore. Car, hiking trails, and even sitting in your tent on a campground observing the wildlife that

Shenandoah National Park and Florida Geologic Setting Introduction Florida and Shenandoah National Park have many commonalities as well as differences that makes each of these geologic setting unique. Though North America looks like Florida and Shenandoah National Park never seemed to collide with one another, Shenandoah has a rock record of being about 1 billion years old that constructed the North American continent and a building block that formed the Appalachians through orogenies. Florida falls

high property values. Also it has things about it which are both positive and negative like that it is a small- overgrown college town. Charlottesville has skyline drive which is a beautiful place with a gorgeous view of the Mountains in Shenandoah National Park. Charlottesville has many things to do like my hometown like hiking for an example. In Charlottesville you can go on a hike through the boulder-studded slopes of the Ragged Mountains and enjoy the beautiful sights of the mature oak, pine

Visual Art Critique For my visual art critique, I attend the Texas State University Wittliff Collections on Tuesday, October tenth. During my visit I viewed works of art from the Lonesome Dove collection. The first piece of work I critiques was the photograph “Crossing the Rio Grande” taken by Bill Wittliff. This photo was taken on the set of the Lonesome Dove in 1988. What stood out to me was the significance of how real this photo is. So many slaves have tried to cross this river to escape persecution

For over 100 years, national parks have been a large part of America’s national identity. Recently, there have been many different thoughts on the funding of these parks, including cutting budgets and increasing prices. The changes made by our current president contradict the views of former president Theodore Roosevelt. The difference in what they believe is important because it may cause drastic changes in the future of our national parks. During his time as president, Roosevelt set aside more

and left them in a worse state than they were before, so he could try and find a new meaning for his life which in turn resulted in his death. When Chris’s name is brought up often so is John muir, a famous explorer and nicknamed “the father of National Parks”. Chris did nothing of the sorts, he left an inconsistent diary and a few pictures, the comparison of the two is unfair towards Muir. Although Chris did have a good relationship with his parents he took a very extreme step in trying to “fix” the

Canada’s have 47 locations of national parks. The mostly Canada’s national parks are popular for mountains, ice and beautiful sceneries. ‘Banff National Park’ one of the popular national park in Canada, which located in Alberta. It is famous for coloured lake, mountain, outside adventure and beautiful sceneries. This park located in Canadian Rocky Mountains. (National Parks List, 2008) This park provide variety of visitor experience. There are so many tourist activities available for visitors like

Our National Parks are facing some major problems, and it is starting to show its damaging effects. The places we have kept protected from people are now seeing major problems from the number of things changing on our planet. The first thing that has been affecting our national parks is the budget for these parks. Most national parks are free, so they are not making any money, which can become a problem. The second thing that is effecting the National parks is the crazy climate change, and how it

Patriots Day. Patriots’ weekend, how about Patriots’ Weekends. It is hard to sum up Minute Man National Historical Park offerings in just a day or weekend. Because of the numerous activities the park schedules, it is a safe bet to cover three consecutive Saturdays worth of events which make up this unique Massachusetts event. Local area towns begin to roll out their celebrations the weekend before Patriots’ day (an official state holiday the third Monday in April). In Concord, the town turns

In the article Impacts of Hunting on Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia, by Harrison and others, the authors examine how a wide variety of factors have influenced hunting practices in Southeast Asia and led to a rapid decline in animal populations in the region. According to the criteria outlined by Clark, the problem in this article is well defined: the practices employed by hunters are unsustainable and indiscriminate, destroying large numbers of vulnerable and rare animal species. Solutions