Petrified Forest National Park

How do you think the presence of Burmese pythons are affecting the Everglades? This passage will help you better understand this question. It is about what they are doing in Florida and how they are affecting it. Burmese pythons is a really dangerous creature to mess with. The Burmese pythons are also invasive in Florida and they get extremely big. According to the newspaper article, "Native to the grassy marshes of Southeast Asia, it is among the largest snakes in the world, capable of growing…

Canyon Reflective Essay, Research, Sustainability The Grand Canyon is one the seven wonders of the natural world. Every year five million people from around the world visit the Grand Canyon to experience its incredible views and hike its trails (National Parks Service. U.S., 2017). Nearly two billion years of geological history is stored in the horizontal strata on the sides of the canyon. The Grand Canyon not only provides sweeping views, recreational trails, and a habitat for wildlife but is…

Chase Kaderabek: Burmese python An estimated one hundred thousand unwanted Burmese pythons now lurk in the Florida everglades. The very powerful and invasive species known as the Burmese python is rapidly altering the amazing one-of-a kind eco system the Florida everglades. The powerful replies have nestled there way right in to the Florida everglades and don’t want to move. There are many ways this repel has come and ways people are trying to make them go all witch will be explained. The…

Pinchot and the Forests From 1890-1920 the United States went through a period of reform known as the Progressive Era. The era’s reformers had a wide variety of social, political, and economic goals that they began pursuing at a grassroots level, such as temperance and women’s suffrage (“Progressive Era and World War I”). A significant facet of the era was the Conservation Movement, whose philosophy came from the writings of early naturalists such as John Muir (1838-1914) (“Conservative…

The national landscapes in the United States are some of the most abundant and well-managed regions in the world. They provide our country with ample resources and aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-cultural values. Unfortunately the effects of climate change are deteriorating our national forests. Drier summers and wetter winters are already affecting regions in the West, causing projections for forest fires to increase in severity, frequency, and scale. Forest fire management policies have…

During the summer of 2016, I fought wildland fire for the Weiser Ranger District of the Payette National Forest in Idaho. I worked on a type four heavy engine, E-421. As a firefighter, I was able to witness climate change and increasing fire activity first hand on an off forest assignment to Midas, Nevada. It was there where my module was the first to respond to the Hot Pot Fire. In a little under 36 hours, the Hot Pot Fire spread 123,000 acres. It claimed an abandoned ranch and almost consumed…

(mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price today is $2.18/gallon, so it…

much of this area of the country, Estes Park was heavily influenced by the gold rush of the 1850’s. this town was one of the many places prospectors and explorers came to in search of riches. Most of these individuals came from out east when they saw the news about all the gold out west. Estes Park is a small mountain town in western Colorado, located in Larimer County. The town is part of the Rocky Mountain National Park, one of the country’s 58 national parks. It is located 22.3 miles west of…

along. Today is National Take a Hike Day. Nobody knows whether this day is designed for people to bellow "take a hike" to those who deserve it, or venture into the wilderness for some healthy, much-needed exercise. Aladdin Travel interprets it as the latter. What better time to embrace nature than late autumn? Leaves transform from bright greens to light yellows and dark ambers before they shrivel and freeze off into the bone cold winter. Just a few months away marks the National Parks 100th…

In February 1872 Mollie died giving birth to a daughter who lived only briefly. That summer Jackson was with Hayden again, this time in newly created Yellowstone National Park and in the Teton Mountains. (Jenkins, 2001) For seven years, Jackson and Hayden worked together as a team surveying and documenting the secrets of Western America, but when he published his most famous image, the Mount of the Holy Cross, the…