National park

National Parks have been around since 1972 and every year about 282 million people come to the parks every year to witness the great beauty of them. It is critical that we preserve it for the environment, animals and so generations of people can come witness the beauty of them. America may be not have old buildings and history that spans back thousands of years, but our nature is the pride and joy of the nation. Since national parks are so great, everyone wants to participate and come and see…

Congaree National Park The Forest is the largest hardwood forest in Southeast United States. It is home to thousands of state champion trees and the Wateree and Congaree rivers. The Congaree National Park in Hopkins South is widely known for its history and park culture widely because of its floodplain. Hunter’s since the prehistoric ages, hunters used in to fish. This park is named after the Congaree tribe that inhabited the park, until Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto and the Spaniard…

Arches National Park This area is changing and here is why. The story of Arches begins roughly 65 million years ago. At that time, the area was a dry seabed spreading from horizon to horizon. The striking red rock features we see today would have been buried thousands of feet below you, raw material as yet uncarved. Then the landscape slowly began to change due to erosion (National Park Service). The national park lies on top of an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main…

INTRODUCTION National parks have been created all around America. One of the parks in northern California is Lassen Volcanic National Park. Lassen Volcanic has volcanoes, steaming fumaroles, and hydrothermal vents. It is well known for the Lassen Peak eruption of 1915.This essay will talk about History, Climate, Geology, Location, and Miscellaneous. HISTORY Lassen Volcanic was founded in 1915. The last Lassen eruption was in 1915 and from 1916 to 1921 only ash and steam came out of the…

A single eruption at Yellowstone National Park could kill as many as 90,000 people. Though many people think it will not erupt, there is a supervolcano underneath yellowstone. Yellowstone is the first national park that is home to a super volcano. There is lots of wildlife like grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and herds of bison. These make Yellowstone a popular tourist attraction. If this supervolcano erupts it could destroy the wildlife and have a giant impact on the united states. Scientist more…

National Parks have been facing surging numbers of tourists in the recent years which has lead to pollution build-up as well as human trespass in wildlife-only areas. There are many disputes over whether the Park Service should place restrictions on more areas or not, while others believe the problem is that tourists only flock towards the well-known National Parks, leaving others empty and unvisited. Phil Francis, an executive council member of the Coalition to Protect America’s Parks, claims…

Are we there yet? I had asked my mom for the thousandth time on our way to Arches National Park Utah. My family and I have been waiting for this trip what seems like forever. My brother and father planned our trip to Arches National Park and we are planning on staying there for five days. We are all psyched for this trip and I think I am the most excited. Day 1: I just woke up it is 6:30 a.m. and I can smell pancakes and eggs cooking outside. I saw a mule deer as I walked out the…

does not want to make it a national park. But you know what I think, I think it should be a national park. The reasons it should be a national park is because people use to farm on it and, it could teach students how canyons are formed. Also, the attractions it has. So, I'm going to tell you why it should be national park. First of all, it use to be a farm place. So it was basically created by us. So we should be able to decide if it should be a national park or not. Since it use to…

Yosemite National Park was first protected in 1864 and has since been a fascinating landscape that can be observed by people from all over (NPS). The formation of Yosemite Valley has been a natural phenomena for millions of years, formed by some of Earth’s most compelling geological sources. Yosemite has many beautiful granite formations and glacier-carved landscapes that attract everyone from artists to geologists (Huber, 1987). Yosemite Valley was formed by a series of different forces…

first field excursion to Kuringai-Chase National Park in early September was a guided tour let by my Anthropology Professor. Preliminary discussions of the tour centered on the retelling of Australia’s dark history to include the injustices inflicted on the marginalized Indigenous populations by their colonial oppressors. Our tour began atop a ledge over looking the bodies of water (Hawkesbury River, Pittwater and Cowan Water) that suround the National Park. Image one represents one of the…