Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Wolves Clayton Hull-Crew wrote an editorial on the US-Represented website reflecting on the reintroduction of wolves into the Yellowstone National Park. Hull-Crew states that the wolves have been responsible for a major ecological shift beginning at the top of the food chain, slowly making its way to the bottom, effecting everything from beaver dams to river bed erosion. Hull-Crew claims that the wolves have created what is called a “Trophic Cascade” of events. A Trophic cascade is, “an…

Davione Lopez Keeping the everglades alive is important. Plenty of animals are in endangered and becoming extinct. Florida everglades is one of the best and biggest swamp to see in north America. The Florida everglades is important because its an endangered environment. The reasons why the everglades and swamps are important is because too much Pythons are taking over the swamps, the animals are getting extinct, and the wetlands help the humans. The snakes in the…

The sudden discovery of a natural hot spring along the shoulder of the Sulphur Mountain, by three railway workers, lead to the creation of Canada’s oldest National Park, Banff National Park. Banff National Park is located in the province of Alberta and was established in the Rocky Mountains in 1855.. Upon the discovery, the Canadian Pacific Railway recognized the vast tourism potential and saw a future for the development of tourism in Banff. Therefore, Canada established a federal reserve…

Death Valley National Park is one of my favorite places I have been in my life! Death Valley is located almost in between the states California and Nevada. Death Valley was declared in 1933 but it was established on October 31st 1994. It covers about 3.4 million acres of land! You have to visit this majestic wonder of the world. What makes Death Valley such a national treasure is its scorching hot temperatures. It is a very hot and dry place to visit but I can tell you that it's worth it. There…

Shenandoah National Park is a US National Park. Shenandoah is located in Virginia. It was established as a national park on December 26, 1935. The size of Shenandoah is 199,200 in acres and 311.22 in miles. There is a skyline drive that drives and the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains that is 105 miles long. There are more than 500 miles of trail that lead to the skyline drive. These trails are from Indiana's and early settlers. Shenandoah is just about 75 miles from Washington D.C.…

If the name Headwaters Forest Preserve does not ring a bell, you might recall Julia Butterfly Hill, who spent 738 days between 12/10/1997 and 12/18/1999 in the tree affectionately known as "Luna," to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. Pacific Lumber had been bought by Maxxam Corp., and they were clear cutting everything in sight to pay off the bonds they sold to buy this forest. Pacific Lumber, which had been doing sustainable logging for generations, suddenly became an…

bear in a National Park is only 1 out of 2.1 million. Even though bears seem like a daunting threat to campers and tourist bears are fairly harmless to the majority. Therefore, bears should not be removed from National Parks because the parks not only provide food storage, but there are no recorded deaths by bears in Yosemite park, and the bears help disperse berry seeds. One reason bears should not be removed from National Parks is that they store away food in metal lockers around the park. For…

Burmese Python Invasion Tracked in Florida A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov) has Florida wildlife officials worried about a Burmese python invasion in the Everglades National Park (www.nps.gov/ever). Now, since the pythons first made travel into the area in 1979, they have found the perfect breeding and feeding grounds and their numbers have grown to at least 300,000 snakes. It’s thought that the Burmese python invasion actually began to get its grip onto the area in 1992 when…

to play a key role in the landscape composition. A species, such as a wolf, is considered a “strongly interactive species” when its absence leads to significant ecosystem changes. This is evident when gray wolves were removed from Yellowstone National Park. These types of changes include structural or compositional modifications, alterations in import and export of nutrients, loss of resilience to disturbance, and decreases in native species diversity (Paine). Keystones are species whose…

One of the most influential and eye-opening was a trip I took to Yosemite National Park during my junior year of high school. The trip was offered to high school students in Northern California, provided by the McConnell Foundation- an independent foundation that awards grants to nonprofit organizations, public education, and government entities. The goal of the trip was to educate students on the importance of the national park, learn about its ecology, explore its natural wonders, and to…