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| Subject: Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming 14/11/2010, 9:49 am | |
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If you really want to see good wildlife that covers all kinds ofspecies, then this is the site that must be seen. The YellowstoneNational Park was established by the United States Congress in the year1872. The park is situated in Wyoming State and extends to part ofIdaho & Montana States. The national park is famous because of thevarious wildlife that it has and also for the natural geysers spreadall over the park. The Indigenous Americans, also called theAboriginals, have stayed in this place for at least 11,000 years.Initially, it was only open for mountain hikers and quite later, itbecame public and available to all. Immediately to its making, it washanded over to the US Army for maintenance and the administration wasgiven to the national park services.The Yellowstone National Park covers a total area of 8,983 squarekilometers and has many lakes, canyons, rivers and ranges of mountains.The park has a lake in it, named the Yellowstone Lake and is one of thelargest high altitude lakes in North America. It also has a activevolcano in it called the Yellowstone Caldera and has erupted a lot oftimes in the past two million years with massive force. The NationalPark also has an ecosystem. It is fills with a lot of birds, animalsand endangered species. Forest fires are a very common sight to seeevery year. It was in 1988 that the largest fire destroyed almost onethird of the park. One can do a lot of things in the park like boating,hiking, fishing, camping etc… | |
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