Yellowstone National Park Protection Act

Wow… I’m at Yellowstone National Park, which was the first national park that was established on March 1, 1872, by the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act. I can see why Congress thought to establish this park since they hired a professional artist to go and see where they were “helping to save Yellowstone from private development.” As they say in the official National Park Service website, "Jackson's photographs, Moran's paintings, and Elliot's sketches-had caught the imagination of Congress," but their reports weren't the only ones. There were other artists and explorers who followed in their steps to persuade Congress to pass the bill, and with all of their work, President Ulysses S. Grant signed it, putting the Park Protection Act into business.

One of the reasons that I believe why Yellowstone National
Actually, those species are vital in the Yellowstone environment. For instance, Gray wolves were reintroduced after being extinct in Yellowstone in the 1900s as farmers complained about the damage Gray wolves did to their livestock. After removal of wolves, Yellowstone elk began to overpopulate due to a lack of their natural enemies, causing vegetation to vanish there, affecting animals like rabbits, mice, and much more, which depend on that vegetation. Decreased number of those herbivore endangered carnivore, such as coyotes and foxes, as well. Just a removal of wolves by humans has brought the ecosystem out of balance. However, the bright side is that, since reintroduction of Gray wolves in 1995, the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park is showing some recovery, telling us that it may not be too late and humans may be able to correct what they have done against the Mother Nature. The history of Yellowstone National Park tells us that we humans can easily destroy the ecosystem but a recovery effort is possible and worth to