Yellowstone National Park

1
Yellowstone National Park
2
History

• Americas first national park
• Established in 1872
• Location in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
• History goes back about 11,000 years to many
  Native Americans
• Park was used as home, transportation route, and
  hunting grounds.
• Park crosses Continental Divide 3 times and has
  350 miles of paved road

3
Yellowstone National Park

• Managed to protect cultural and natural resources
  and scenery for visitors use
• For example fishing
• Fishing has been one of the major activities that
  enhanced the park for the purpose of natural
  environments and native species. Overfishing is
  done due to humans desire to eat more fish
• Cutthroat trout is one important fish of the park

4
Places to see and go

• Old Faithful- a popular geyser that has hot
  springs earthquakes occur in the winter
• Grand Canyon
• Anemone Geyser- has eruption 7-10 min where the
  pool fills and overflows causing bubbles to
  splash
• Plume Geyser- erupts every 20 min
• Beehive Geyser- consist of streams of water that
  goes 150 ft in the air
• Daisy Geyser- Its eruption is erupts on an angle
  and reaches up to 75ft.

5
Climate

• Climate is of cold winters and moderate summers
• Park is above 7,500 ft
• Have to be prepared for changing of the weather
  due to storms, and other temperatures
• .Weather is unpredictable!................
  ........

6
The animals in Yellowstone

• Elk
• Deer
• Bison
• Grizzly bears
• Fish(trout)
• Wolves
• Coyotes
• Bald Eagles

7
Yellowstone animals destruction

• A 3year old male wolf was hit by a car
• No report of the destruction was made
• Damages done to wolf
• Broken leg
• Blood in mouth
• Massive injuries

8
Yellowstone animals destruction

• Grizzly bear was struck in Yellowstone by a
  motorist on June 15, 2003.
• They have to be seperated from food sources
  because they have attacked many humans and their
  food

9
Wolves

• What dangers do the wolves face?
• Human
• Climate
• Predators
• Other wolves
• Why???????

10
Yellowstone National Park Caldera

• What is the reason Yellowstone erupted 3 times in
  over 2 million years with massive explosions than
  any volcano in Earths history?

• What is it?
• Geologic hotspot that existed beneath
  Yellowstone

11
Five regions of Yellowstone

• Mammoth Country- hotsprings that form terraces
• Geyser Country-home to Old Faithful and mud pots,
  and hot pools
• Lake Country- includes blue lake and land of
  forests, eagles , grizzly bears etc.
• Canyon Country- Grand Canyon
• Roosevelt Country- Captures the spirit of the Old
  West rolling hills

12
Wild land Fire in Yellowstone

• Wildfires occurred across much of the ecosystem
  in the 1700s.
• National history of fire includes
• Conflagration sweeping across volcanic plateaus
• Hot wind fires

13
Wild fire

• In 1940s ecologists saw that fire was the reason
  for a change in the ecosystem
• In 1950s and 1960s the parks and forests began
  to experience burns
• By 1970s Yellowstone instituted a natural fire
  management plan which allowed the process of
  lightening caused fire to influence wild land
  succession
• The natural fire policy 1972-1987 consisted of
  235 fires that burned up 33,759 acres.

14
Park Planning

• Environmental Impact Statements(EISs)
• Environmental Assessments (Eas)
• Management plans
• No Significant Impact (FONSIs)
• Records of Decision (RODs)
• Planning, Environment, and Public Comment(PEPC)

15
Did You Know?

• More people have been hurt by bison than bears
  each year in Yellowstone
• Shoshone Indians chose not to acquire the horse
• Yellowstone contains ½ of worlds hydrothermal
  features, which are over 10,000 including 300
  geysers and parks
• The Roosevelt Arch is located at the North
  Entrance of Yellowstone National Park with
  cornerstone of arch being done by president
  Theodore Roosevelt