learn more about the areas that I adore the most. The Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park is one of those places. The park is a chain of preserved land that stretches from Gatlinburg‚ Tennessee to Cherokee‚ North Carolina‚ along Highway 441. In the midst of reading Dorie: Woman of the Mountains by Florence C. Bush‚ I was interested to learn that Dorie grew up in what is known today as The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. To dig deeper into the topic‚ I found a photograph of a town called Elkmont and
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spotting a meteor before it impacts the Earth‚ and the extensive damage that such an event would cause. He also focuses on some of the most recent destructive disasters of volcanic origin in the history of our planet‚ including Krakatoa and Yellowstone National Park. What I liked about the book was that it was full of interesting and odd facts. These facts were so peculiar and odd because it was virtually impossible to work them out. What I also liked about the book was that you were able to learn
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explore this Park alone. Some of you may think that going on Safari without friends or family could be awkward since you cannot share emotions about great sightings with anybody. However‚ I thoroughly enjoy these "one-man-holidays" as I can head for whichever place I feel like and can stay at a certain sighting as long as I choose. As I had two weeks I decided to cover the whole Park. I started at Numbi gate‚ went up North to Pafuri and returned to the South to eventually leave the Park at Malelane
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Case Study: The Grizzly Bear Lodge Diane and Rudy Conrad own a small lodge outside of Yellowstone National Park called The Grizzly Bear Lodge. The lodge is rather small‚ containing only 15 rooms that can accommodate 40 guests. The lodge is open between May and September and then reopens in April for a short spring season. They are weighing their options to possibly expand their business and add an additional 20 rooms. There are many factors that go into the expansion‚ including their current
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If my class received some money for a field trip‚ I would use it to go to Yellowstone. It would be the perfect place for a field trip because we would have oodles of exciting adventures. First of all‚ we would be able to observe many different species of wildlife in their natural habitats. If we were lucky‚ we might discover bears‚ elk‚ buffalos‚ coyotes‚ and maybe even wolves. When I visit the Park‚ I love to find a perch high on a hill and glance across the vast valley at all the animals
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per person. In 2012‚ fiction writer and part-time limousine driver to Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov‚ Jackson Curtis‚ picked up his children‚ Noah and Lily‚ from his ex-wife‚ Kate’s boyfriend‚ Gordon’s house. He took them camping to the Yellowstone National Park only to find out that the lake already dried up and that a military headquarter was put up. They were taken to the headquarter and Jackson was recognized by Dr. Helmsey who read his book Farewell Atlantis. On their way from the headquarter
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conifer‚ spruce fir‚ and ponderosa pine. Oakbrush can provide coverage and food for the elk. Most of these habitats provide coverage‚forage‚ and security for elk. Place in the food web: Below is a picture of a food web of animals in Yellowstone National Park. The elk is a primary consumer in a food web‚ along with pronghorns‚ beavers‚ cutthroat trout‚ and deer mice. A primary consumer is an organism that gets its energy from a producer. Without any primary consumers in a food web the producer
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National Parks: Useful or Destructive? In his essay “Glen Canyon Submersus” Wallace Stegner writes “In gaining the lovely and the usable‚ we have given up the incomparable” (509). In this quote he is talking about the loss of Glen Canyon during the creation of Lake Powell‚ and more broadly‚ talking about how national parks often destroy wildernesses despite their apparent usefulness. Glen Canyon is only one of thousands of examples of an environment being destroyed by a government funded park system
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Wolves in Yellowstone caused a chain of events to occur. This chain of events includes‚ the growing of more grassland and willow trees‚ occurring because the deer population spends more of its time hiding. The introduction to the willow trees results in the increase population of the beavers. Since more trees and grasses were growing this strengthened the river banks which led to less flooding. All of this occurred‚ but did it occur because of the introduction to the wolves in Yellowstone? Or was it
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Death Valley National Park Trip My family and I arrived at the Death Valley National Park at the Mohave Desert in California‚ and saw the sign that said “Homeland of the Timbisha Shoshone”. We got out of the car to find it scorching hot. I hadn’t realized that it would be this hot in the afternoon‚ even though it was July. We checked into one of the many hotels there‚ which was the Inn at Furnace Creek. It was one of the most charming hotels I’ve ever seen. My mom said to the friendly
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