Grand Teton National Park

The break-even pool considers the admission’s fees with and without allocated management costs. Once calculated, the Park will break even by charging between $5.54 with allocated management costs and $6.09 with management costs included. 3. Program Shut Down Since the park manager desires to shut down some of the programs of Stratton Township Park, the calculations determined, in the program shut down a section of the spreadsheet (see Appendix D for detailed information), that…

The Spheres of Yellowstone National Park Throughout history, Yellowstone National Park has been a central part of American culture. When a typical American envisions Yellowstone, they see a beautiful landscape, or place filled with nature and wildlife. However, there is more to Yellowstone National Park than what meets the eye. Yellowstone National Park is an area riddled with the strife of politics. Two spheres, human-and human and human-and-nature, describe an important relationship within…

My life drastically changed before I was born. Before I was able to see what the “Before” was like. I live in the After. The aftermath of people 's poor choices and neglectful nature, the not-so-calm after the storm. When you live the the After you desperately long to see what the Before was like. So I took ten hours and built myself a before and, maybe, just maybe, this time there won’t need to be an after. When I was four, my Mother committed her life to someone new. I was now a girl with…

Mount St. Helens is an 8,363-ft. tall volcanic landmark of the state of Washington. It was a popular tourist attraction and recreation area for most of the 20th century. It was also The U.S.’s 8th tallest mountain, towering at 9,977 ft. It is now the 14th tallest at 8,363 ft. tall, due to a major eruption in May of 1980. On May 18, 1980, the beautiful, peaceful well-known mountain Mount St. Helens became the most dangerous mountain in U.S. history in a matter of minutes. There are records of…

inception, has recorded a great deal of accomplishments worthy of note. Perhaps the most renowned and early accomplishments dates back to 1916, when the National Park Service was established. Gottlieb (2005) notes how Stephen Mather, a wealthy business man and the first head of the National Park Service, came up with a strategy to develop the parks for recreational purposes and finance. According to Gottlieb (2005) Mather relied on utilizing railroads in fusing the idea…

Redwood National Park: A Place Remembered Forever An amazing sight towers before me as my eyes engulf every detail of a breath-taking sky of redwood trees, exceeding my expectations of their appearance I had previously laid out in my mind. This became my first and only visit to the Redwood National Park while vacationing in California with my grandma and my father, who are the two family members of mine that mean the world to me. I had anticipated the day when I would finally be able to glue my…

Tucked away in the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Virunga National Park is one of the most biodiverse and rich areas left in the world. It is a safe haven for many exotic and endangered animals, including mountain gorillas. However, because the Democratic Republic of Congo is centrally located in Africa, the country is in midst of turmoil and wars that erupted following post-colonization. Furthermore, the Democratic Republic of Congo itself has instability within its…

In the early 1900’s, the loss of habitat and extermination programs led to the gray wolf’s demise. Wolves have once roamed all over the country. They’ve been nearly hunted to extinction with only 50 wolves left in the wild when Yellowstone National Park was young. Hunters back then thought they were helping the deer and elk by killing the wolf, its main predator. They were wrong. A 30 year project to restore the wolf population was made, and the wolves made an amazing recovery. The wolves are…

forested areas, especially during hot and dry weather conditions or due to lightning strikes. In the summer of 1988, for example, 42 instances of forest fires were caused by lightning strikes in the Yellowstone National Park which resulted in the burning of about 793,880 acres of the park, loss of 300 large mammals (elks, bison, deer and moose), and costed over $120 million in firefighting efforts…

Bos bison, or the American bison, is the largest land mammal native to North America. It is placed in the same genus, Bos, as the domestic cattle. However, some taxonomists categorize it in the genus Bison, arguing that there is a substantial number of differences to separate it from domestic cattle. The American bison can be separated into two subspecies: B. Bison bison and B. Bison athabascae. B. Bison bison, or the plains bison, is more common in western United States. The plains bison also…