Mount Rainier is home to Columbian black-tailed deer, black bear, and elk. You can visit Mount Rainier year round because it is open all year long. The most popular time to go to Mount Rainier is in July or August because that is the time when the wildflower is in full bloom.
The park has many species of wildlife, but in recent years park researchers have noticed a significant change in behavior of the park animals, as a result of people feeding the animals. That is bad because if wild deers, bears, or even elk come up to people expecting food and they don’t have any then they can get hurt really bad. They could even die because the animals want food.
The park rangers give free educational talks in the evenings, telling stories around the campfires. They have many hiking trails that lead to waterfalls, …show more content…
You have to chose a place for camping and a place to park. There is about 27 major glaciers on Mt. Rainier and numerous unnamed snow or indicators of climatic change.
The main highway that runs through Alaska is a threat to the animals because if animals come across the road, and the driver is going way too fast, then both the driver, passengers, and the animals can be killed. The roads can become icy and very dangerous to drive on. Many people can be killed and badly injured as a result of driving on thin ice.
Mount Rainier first became a park in 1870, and the person who discovered it was Van Trump along with Seven’s. Mount Rainier is very old and so are some of the animals. Mount Rainier became a park in Wilkeson Carbonado. The elevation when it first started was 1,063ft tall. Now it is over 1,367ft tall.
It has lots of elk and deer and black bears in the mountains and on the forest side. There are over 260 maintained trails so that means you will see the animals - foxes, raccoons and other animals. The animals have to blend in and survive on their