National parks of USA
Published on May 17, 2016
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The United States has 59 protected areas known as national parks. National parks must be established by an act of the United States Congress.
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YELLOWSTONE- the first National park
•President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872
•Geothermal areas of Yellowstone (geyser, hot spring, mud pot
•Old faithful (geyeser): erupting every 35 to 120 minutes, one hundred and twenty-five feet high
•Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years
•Lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges
•Yellowstone lake: 136 square miles (350 km2)
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Carlsbad Caverns
- The primary attraction of the park is the show cave
- Visitors can come every day of the year except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
- Batman - anytime
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Park is on five of the eight Channel Islands:
San Miguel
Santa Rosa
Anacapa
Santa Barbar
Santa Cruz acres
Death Valley
- in the two states California and Nevada
- between the dry Great Basin and Mojave deserts
- It is the hottest, lowest, and driest place in the United States. Daytime temperatures have topped 130 °F (54 °C)
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animal:
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Grand Canyon
- No, these aren't animals. She is my mom and she sends you a fresh hello just from there
- :)
Great Sand Dunes
Colorado, 42,983.74 acres (173.9 km2)
Great Smoky Mountains
North Carolina, Tennessee / 521,490.13 acres (2,110.4 km2)
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Covering large areas of the Colorado and Mojave Deserts and the Little San Bernardino Mountains
called: Exotic desert
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There is a concentration of 225-million-year-old petrified wood. The cliffs are wonderfully painted red-hued volcanic rock called bentonite. There are also dinosaur fossils and over 350 Native American sites.
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Pinnacles
- the park is famous for its massive black and gold monoliths
- endangered California condor
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Sequoia
- This park protects the Giant Forest, which boasts some of the world's largest trees
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Virgin Island
all remaining coastal redwoods, the tallest trees on earth
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Wrangell–St. Elias The largest national park
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President Abraham Lincoln sign the Yosemite Grant in 1864.
In 1890, John Muir led a successful movement to establish national park.
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There are granite cliffs, medows, waterfalls, and old-growth forests at a unique intersection of geology and hydrology. Glacier careved Yosemite Valley and huge cliffs Half Dome and El Capitan rise from the park's centerpiece.
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From its vertical walls drop Yosemite Falls, North America's tallest waterfall. Three giant sequoia groves, along with a pristine wilderness in the Sierra Nevada[
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coyote
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NATURE IS FOR US AS IMPORTANT AS OUR BODY! SHE IS CLEANING OXYGEN AS SAME AS YOUR THOUGHT. PRESERVE NATURES VITALITY AS SAME AS YOUR BODY. NATURE IS EASILY DESTROYED, BUT HARD TO REFRESH.
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Hello from top of Waterfall
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THANK YOU FOR SHARING FANTASTIC ADVENTURES,
AND I WISH YOU A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WAYS TO REACH THE TOP OF YOUR GOOD DREAMS
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