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    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

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    way to Yellowstone National Park Trip Theme This trip starts from Denver, Colorado to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. “Natural landform” is the main theme for this trip. I will explore the mystery of geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, a national park mostly located in Wyoming, on March 1, 1872 U.S. President You Lixi Simpson Grant Adams signed the bill passed by Congress after the establishment of the world's first national park. Yellowstone National

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    Yellowstone national park is in the united states. it was the very first national park to be established by congress on March 1st,1872 to help preserve wildlife. Yellowstone is a national treasure because it has a geyser that erupts more than other geysers it erupts very frequently but not as much as it used too. While I was at yellowstone national park we were stopped by a family of bears that walked in circles around our car!. Then the bears finally went away and we drove to the front gate where

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    Yellowstone has 1200 cubic miles of molten rocks, which is substantially greater than Toba’s stockpile. To add to this, the lower part of the chamber has another 11,000 cubic miles of the same object and overpowers any known eruption by more than one order

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    While tying my torn salmon pink Nike sneakers, I feel the fatigue of being eighteen years old. Some people say, “Love is the best thing in the world.” In my case, love brought me shining happiness and the red rage of betrayal. Running in Yellowstone National Park I am struck by a six feet five inches giant. He was as tall as the Washington Monument. His hazelnut brown eyes glanced around before he saw what he had done. Trying to grab me so I would not fall, his smooth colossal hand reached for me

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    This version of the inauguration process of Yellowstone National Park outlines the impact the installment of Yellowstone had on the lives and lifestyle of its inhabiting and neighboring Native American tribes. John Colter, the first non-Indian to explore Yellowstone, was guided by the Crow, whom he set up a trade alliance with, to observe the many wonders the land contained. On his return to the east, many thought his stories, of geysers shooting heated water hundreds of feet in the air, were only

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    The Reintroduction of the Grey Wolf to Yellowstone National Park Introduction Yellowstone became a national park in 1872, it is a proud monument to America’s wilderness and an incredibly vast park, over 3,500 miles. This park was once characterized by the Grey Wolf whom presided over it. Now, as you and I understand National parks are protected from hunting, fishing, forestry and other man made interferences in mother nature’s design. When Yellowstone was established officially there was no legislation

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    Twenty seven years ago, the summer of 1988, Yellowstone National Park caught fire. It was the biggest fire in the history of Yellow stone. It historically impacted the fire service as well as the ecological system of the national park. The National park has a “let it burn” policy or “natural burn” policy which lets the fires occur and burn naturally without suppression . It is not uncommon for a fire to start in Yellowstone. On an average they have at least one a year, usually they are fairly small

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    Yellowstone National Park is considered as world’s first national park, with the size of more than two million acres of land in northwestern Wyoming and southwestern Montana. The park consist of many different species of animals and plants; in addition, it has one of the largest calderas with over 10,000 thermal features and more than 300 geysers. Having said that, Yellowstone National Park hosts around 4 million visitors each year. The theory of plate tectonics states that earth’s crust is broken

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    One of the best examples of these ecological benefits can be seen in Yellowstone National Park. Wild wolves inhabited Yellowstone at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the concept of what could be called “natural” excluded carnivores. Overhunting, greatly supported by the government, eliminated wolves from Yellowstone National Park. As predicted by the mere concept of rewilding, things didn’t go well in Yellowstone. After the wolves were gone, elks began overgrazing, causing the erosion

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