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    the fifth we took a zero day. (We hiked zero miles) Zero days are essential for physical and mental recovery. We sat around, drinking chocolate milk, surfing the web and reading good books. On the sixth we hiked out of town, and into Yellowstone National…

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    in California with my aunt and cousin before I went to University of California, Riverside extension. Such as I went to Santa Monica beach it’s one of the famous beaches in the world. There are so pretty and comfortable. Then I went to Yosemite national park with my friends we have seen the snow-capped mountains and heard the bear called. I was thinking it was amazing and crazing. When I was afraid of the bear called my friends laughed to myself. Finally, my mother came to America in…

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    National Park Environment

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    National Park Rangers have incredibly important jobs when it comes to the health of an environment. Park Rangers have the ability to cause considerable change to an environment in a positive or negative way. The role of the national park ranger is to “protect, conserve, and to provide for the enjoyment of our nation 's heritage” (Maciha). National Park Rangers know better than anyone that the most basic of changes can cause an environment, or more specifically an ecosystem to crumble. The most…

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    National Park Spheres

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    Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place to discover because when you do, you start to understand why we have national parks at all. There are three spheres of interaction in the park and they are: nature-and-nature, human-and-nature, and human-and-human. The spheres that stand out are the human-and-nature and nature-and-nature. Tourist-and-wolves interact within the human-and-nature sphere, and the effects of their interaction are a complicated and long relationship within the history of…

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    upholding the natural beauty and resources of the land was sparked through the establishment of Yellowstone National Park within the American West. These new desires had a lasting impact upon the humans and the environment one lived in. In order to achieve these ideas, many barriers had to be overcome to create a system of protecting land and establishing National Parks. Yellowstone National Park was established during the American Gilded Age, a time of greed and growth when America needed to…

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    Yellowstone is known for its unique animals,beautiful landscapes and architecture.But there's more than just that.Yellowstone is the first national park. It was established March 1st 1872.Yellowstone is home to unique animals ,mountains,and earth's largest collection of geysers. It covers 3,472 sq mi.The park goes through three states (majority of Wyoming,north and northwest Montana,and west Idaho.Their animals include antelopes,bears,wolves,bison,elk,and more that we usually don't see in…

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    Gilded Age Research Paper

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    minerals, the expansion of cattle into the grasslands, and the mass clearing of land for the expansion of railroads, we began quickly decimating the only natural resources that were available to us. In 1872, Congress created the first national park, Yellowstone National Park. Although the creation of Yellowstone kick-started the conservation movement, it was only “partly to preserve an area of remarkable natural beauty and partly at the urging of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which was…

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    Hypocrisy Of Ecotourism

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    and predator animals can throw off an entire ecosystem. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe” (Muir, 1911). For example, when looking at the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park it can be found that a minor change can lead to what is called a “trophic cascade”. The simple reintroduction of a small number of wolves changed not only the booming deer population, but the behavior of the deer. This change in behavior…

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    Central Park History

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    today’s New York City with its 8.5 million citizens the only green that is left in the city are man-made parks. Frederick Olmstead, who created all 842 acres of Central Park, had amazing foresight into what the city would become. As Abraham Lincoln called for the emancipation of slaves in 1863, Olmstead expanded Lincoln’s vision planned the foundation for what will become the world’s first national park system. Olmstead, referring to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address, that accesses to…

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    America’s first National park. Located in the state of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park draws millions of visitors every year. Yellowstone park includes over three thousand square miles of lakes, canyons, rivers, and mountains. The National park is bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. All though Yellowstone is considered to be located in Wyoming the park actually stretches across three states. Ninety six percent of Yellowstone is in Wyoming but the other three percent of the park…

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