Devils Tower Research Paper

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Devils Tower National Park seems like a great place because of the constant questions of how it was formed or its history. But people still don’t know everything about its Wild Life, Vegetation, Weather, Human History, Geological History, and all of this towers other amazing features. Devils Tower has a lot of wild life but the two most common are the wild prairie dog and the buffalo. Devils Tower is loaded with vegetation like leafy spurge or hounds tongue. The weather at Devils Tower depends on the seasons of the year. Human history of the Devils Tower started way before President Theodore Roosevelt claimed it to be America’s first national park. The Devils Tower geological history is strange scientists say that magma rose out the ground

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