Joshua Tree National Park By Luz N Silva My essay is on the Joshua Tree National Park. I chose to write about this particular park because it is special to my husband. He visited there several times while stationed in Arizona back in the late 90’s. I physically have never been there but feel as if I have‚ due to his descriptive love and appreciation for nature. We both love the outdoors and are always curious to learn and explore things we don’t get to see and enjoy on an everyday basis
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Mesa Verde National Park is a very large park that is located in Montezuma County in Colorado and used to be the home of the Anasazi people many years ago. It is located in the southwestern corner of Colorado (Anderson) and since Mesa Verde is essentially a plateau‚ it got the name Mesa Verde‚ which translates to green table in Spanish (Anderson). This area was populated with juniper trees and and pinons and all of that greenery encouraged the Anasazi people to make their homes on top of the plateau
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Hills. The park has gained much wider recognition in the world when UNESCO included this area on the list of World Heritage Site in 1984. Formerly‚ the Chit wan valley was well known for big game and was exclusively managed as a hunting reserve for the Rana Prime Ministers and their guests until 1950. In 1963‚ the area south of Rapti was demarcated as a rhinoceros sanctuary. In 1970‚ His late Majesty King Mahendra had approved in principle the creation of Chitwan National Park. Chitwan National far is
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Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park‚ a large national park in the western slopes of Sierra Nevada mountain range‚ is not just a great valley‚ but a shrine to human foresight. It owns amazing beauty of glaciers‚ mountain ranges‚ sequoia trees‚ and the granite. Yosemite is located in the west coast of the United States and in the east of California near Sierra Nevada. West of the park are the major cities of San Francisco and Sacramento‚ California. Southeast of the park is Las Vegas‚ Nevada
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Have you visited a national park? Do you ever walk around and enjoy nature? You can thank a man named John Muir. John Muir was a naturalist who can be known as “The Father of Our National Parks”. He helped preserve many of our national parks that we see today. John Muir and his love for the wilderness helped the American people learn that they need to preserve the natural beauty around them. To understand how he helped the people learn to preserve the environment‚ we need to know about his childhood
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Hantavirus It seems that the there has been an outbreak of a rare‚ deadly virus called the Hantavirus in Yosemite National Park. According to the article‚ there has been an outbreak of hantavirus infections in Curry Village‚ a popular camping site in Yosemite‚ and that two people have already died from it. However‚ this isn’t the first time the hantavirus has spread. In 1993‚ the virus had been first discovered when a terrifying outbreak unfolded in the Four Corners Area of Colorado‚ New Mexico
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Big Bend National Park Report 1. What is the depositional nature of the rocks in the study area and how does their lithologic compositions and sedimentary structures record changing water depths‚ environments of deposition‚ and paleogeography? Big bend national park has complex rocks that are subsided in two seas hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossil data from the mid to Upper Cretaceous period predicts the sequence of rock strata in Big Bend National Park to be from bottom to top: limestone
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Old Faithful is a geyser located in Yellowstone National Park‚ Wyoming‚ United States. It is one of 300 geysers in Yellowstone National Park. Old Faithful has a groundwater supply that is heated by a volcano. Old Faithful received its name by being predictable with its eruptions. It received its name by members of the 1870 Washburn Expedition. Old Faith had an average of 91 minutes between eruptions. Old Faithful is thought to be so reliable since it not connected to any other thermal feature
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In my opinion the idea of making Providence Canyon a national park is unacceptable‚ allowing this tragic event to happen could cause many concerns not only to the southwest region‚ but to the citizens of America that visit the canyon. Making Providence Canyon a national park is unacceptable for the following reasons‚ it could put the parks wildlife in harms way‚ because the people that visit may throw trash down‚ and the animals may consume it or become tangled in it‚both of these tragedies
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¨Lava Beds National Monuments¨ stationed in north eastern California is a park filled with fun filling beauty‚ history‚ and scientific wonders. This would be a trip of a lifetime‚ but only if our principle would let us go. Lava Beds National Monuments has a humongous amount of beauty stretching all the way across the park. With the Lava running all over the place like a water runs in a stream. The park has beautiful figures like lava tubes‚ scenic trails‚ climb cumber cones‚ and beautiful desert
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