Yellowstone Falls

It has been El Paso’s goal to make Castner Range a national park for decades. The park has been an important part of El Paso’s history since 1926, and still continues to impact the city today as we fight for national recognition. Many El Pasoans have expressed and harbored their own opinions on what should become of Castner Range, and their opinions have continued to affect what becomes of it. The group of supporters for the park to become a monument ranges from the EPISD school district, along…

What is your interest in the National Trails System, specifically the national scenic trails? • As our society becomes ever more modernized we as a populous are losing our connection with essential characteristics that underlie the greatness of the United States. There exists three main characteristics, and they are the historical, cultural, and natural aspects of the United States. In order for our society to preserve this connection we must provide generations to come effective mediums of…

The group of scientists decided to focus on the effect of parasites on animals. They choose wolves in Yellowstone National Park as their subject. The parasite chosen for the study was the mange. Mange causes hair loss to the infected animals. The focus of the study is on the effect of the hair loss that are often caused by mange on the wolves. The wolves that they studied were captured and had a GPS collar attached to them and some of them were shaved at places where hair loss due mange was…

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…

to pursue a PhD or an MA in Communication Studies? Not long after graduating from the University of Georgia in May of 2013, I moved to Wyoming and began working within one of the worlds largest nearly enact ecosystems in the world, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. I was inspired by this area on a camping trip as a teenager and quickly made a resolution to live in this breathtaking place as soon as I was able. Since 2013, I’ve worked to immerse myself in the professional world of ecotourism and…

thought of 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…

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 now moving outside of Yellowstone and conservationists are looking to expand their range, however, many don’t agree with bringing…

life. Natural fires are a routine occurrence in 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…

experience short-term fear during a chase or when a predator is about to pounce on them. We also know fear can cause a population to not thrive and the number of births to decrease and death rate to increase. A kind of experiment was done when the Yellowstone National Park exterminated wolves for 70 years and then slowly…