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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Park Profile:  History: Yellowstone National Park is the first established US National Park, which was established in 1872 (for in depth details about the history of the park click [|here]). The President, Ulysses S. Grant, signed a bill to make this park an offical national park. The park was name "Yellowstone" because of yellowstone river, which happens to run throughout the park. Yellowstone has been inhabitted by many different animals, as well as many different groups of native americans, until the europeans discovered it and made this an offical national park in 1872.
 * The park is in three states, [|Idaho], [|Montana], and [|Wyoming]
 * The park is 2,219,789 acres
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 * Around a million people came to visit last year



F.V. Hayden made a trip there to explore yellowstone and try to record information about the national park in 1860, but his trip was unsuccesful. However he was still determined and made an second trip with more people and made an report on the park with painting/photographs to help make congress to sign thi off as an national park in 1871. For some more information about F.V Haydens trip click [|here].



After yellowstone was established many locals were scared about the economical setback it could cause, because they were unable to use its resources. Many bills were sent to congress that tried to reduce the size of this park. In the early days there was destruction done to the park due to the army being there in the late 1800's-to the early 1900's. Because of this the National Park Service was created in 1916 to help protect the park from any damages. This helped the park from man made damage, but it could not help agaisnt national disasters.

In 1959 there was a huge earthquake in Yellowstone which damaged many roads and structures that were inside the park, but it did help find many new geysers. Also, in 1988 wildfires damaged around 36% of Yellowstone. However, through all of this Yellowstone is marked as an [|international bioshpere resevere] and a [|world heritage site] media type="file" key="yellow stone vid 2.flv" width="139" height="153"  What to do when here: media type="file" key="yellowstone video1.flv" width="170" height="147" Video tour of park  media type="file" key="yellow stone vid 3.flv" width="172" height="147" old faithful video

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media type="file" key="yellowstone vid 4.flv" width="148" height="156"​ Environmental Issues: Yellowstone is one of the biggest National Parks in the US, but with that title not only comes diverse speicies and different land scapes, but also serious environmental problems. In Yellowstone many people come through to visit the site and eventually that can damage the site, also resource exticntion there can also have a negative affect on the environment. However, most environmental issues are man made and caused by destruction to plants, and litter, and no matter how many rules are set its very hard to complelty control it.

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