Case Study: The Grizzly Bear Lodge Diane and Rudy Conrad own a small lodge outside of Yellowstone National Park called The Grizzly Bear Lodge. The lodge is rather small‚ containing only 15 rooms that can accommodate 40 guests. The lodge is open between May and September and then reopens in April for a short spring season. They are weighing their options to possibly expand their business and add an additional 20 rooms. There are many factors that go into the expansion‚ including their current
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If my class received some money for a field trip‚ I would use it to go to Yellowstone. It would be the perfect place for a field trip because we would have oodles of exciting adventures. First of all‚ we would be able to observe many different species of wildlife in their natural habitats. If we were lucky‚ we might discover bears‚ elk‚ buffalos‚ coyotes‚ and maybe even wolves. When I visit the Park‚ I love to find a perch high on a hill and glance across the vast valley at all the animals
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per person. In 2012‚ fiction writer and part-time limousine driver to Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov‚ Jackson Curtis‚ picked up his children‚ Noah and Lily‚ from his ex-wife‚ Kate’s boyfriend‚ Gordon’s house. He took them camping to the Yellowstone National Park only to find out that the lake already dried up and that a military headquarter was put up. They were taken to the headquarter and Jackson was recognized by Dr. Helmsey who read his book Farewell Atlantis. On their way from the headquarter
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conifer‚ spruce fir‚ and ponderosa pine. Oakbrush can provide coverage and food for the elk. Most of these habitats provide coverage‚forage‚ and security for elk. Place in the food web: Below is a picture of a food web of animals in Yellowstone National Park. The elk is a primary consumer in a food web‚ along with pronghorns‚ beavers‚ cutthroat trout‚ and deer mice. A primary consumer is an organism that gets its energy from a producer. Without any primary consumers in a food web the producer
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National Parks: Useful or Destructive? In his essay “Glen Canyon Submersus” Wallace Stegner writes “In gaining the lovely and the usable‚ we have given up the incomparable” (509). In this quote he is talking about the loss of Glen Canyon during the creation of Lake Powell‚ and more broadly‚ talking about how national parks often destroy wildernesses despite their apparent usefulness. Glen Canyon is only one of thousands of examples of an environment being destroyed by a government funded park system
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remaining prey in the ecosystem. The grey wolf was originally eradicated in the Yellowstone Park in order to increase quality of life for the elk. The elk was the natural prey of the wolf‚ and faced dwindling populations due to its presence. Following the elimination of the removal of the wolves‚ the elk population flourished‚ reaching numbers as high as 19‚000. This eventually turned out to not be 100% good news for the park‚ as the elk greatly diminished the park’s trees. As Yong mentions‚ the populations
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Wolves in Yellowstone caused a chain of events to occur. This chain of events includes‚ the growing of more grassland and willow trees‚ occurring because the deer population spends more of its time hiding. The introduction to the willow trees results in the increase population of the beavers. Since more trees and grasses were growing this strengthened the river banks which led to less flooding. All of this occurred‚ but did it occur because of the introduction to the wolves in Yellowstone? Or was it
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By Dan Lepping For Professor Owen Chariton HIS 1110: Colorado History CRN 54116 Enos Mills: Citizen of Nature By Alexander Drummond Alexander Drummond‚ born in 1938‚ is a professional writer and former director of publications for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder‚ Colorado. Drummond‚ who grew up and attended the public schools of Boulder‚ was born Ronald Cox‚ but in 1989 he legally changed his name to Alexander Drummond taking his late grandfather’s name because
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the physical structure of the vegetation and environment. After wolves were eradicated from Yellow Stone National Park it caused a collapse in the tri-trophic cascade of predators‚ prey‚ and vegetation. They were reintroduced to restore the cascade that was present in the past to the park. The reintroduction of the wolves resulted in a major decline in the overall populations throughout the park. They also exhibited altered behavior by changing the intensity and location when feeding. This resulted
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There are many great Canadians honoured and heard of in media but there are rarely any First Nations Canadians mentioned and it is extremely rare to hear of someone who pretended to be a native being labelled as such a Great Canadian. The Grey Owl (otherwise known as Archibald Belaney) claimed to be a member of the Ojibwa tribe but in fact was born in England under a fake identity which everyone knows as the Grey Owl. However‚ regardless of his fictitious identity Belaney was able to do incredible
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