Summer of Fire

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1872 -- On March 1, President Ulysses Grant signed into existence the world's first national park, Yellowstone National Park. The 2.2 million acres of wilderness was "set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Facts about Yellowstone• Yellowstone is the first and oldest national park in

the world and covers 3,470 square miles mostly in the northwest corner of Wyoming.

• It is located in the states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

• The park is famous for its various geysers, hot springs, and other geothermal features

• A wide variety of animals such as elk, deer, bison, wolves, black and grizzly bears live in the park

Location of Yellowstone

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Scenes from Yellow Stone

Mammoth Post Office

Roosevelt Gate

Old Faithful

Steamboat Geyser

The Dragon’s Mouth

Shoshone Lake

Shoshone Lake

Mammoth Hot Springs concretions

Mammoth Hot Springs

Targhee National Forest

Tower Falls

Yellowstone Falls and Canyons

Animals of Yellowstone

Bull Elk

Elk Calf

Bison

Gray wolf

Grizzly Bear

Grizzly bear feeding on elk carcass

Black bear cub

Cinnamon colored black bear

Trumpet Swan

Please don’t feed the Bears!

Bear jam, this happens when a bear is spotted by tourists.

Food conditioned bear

Wildflowers

Forest Fires in Yellowstone

Black Saturday

This photo was taken in Yellowstone National Park near the Old Faithful Geyser in June of 1999, eleven years after the fires. Burned out trees remain standing, although

new trees are rising to take their place.

Credits

http://www.x98ruhf.net/yellowstone/fire.htmhttp://www.fratzke.com/yellowstone/pages/Image45.html

http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/fire/pages/88fire16.htm

www.nps.gov/.../picpages/shoshonelake.htm membres.lycos.fr/aaltazin/US_YellowstoneNP.htm