Beautiful Locations for Forests and Wilderness to discover.
North America:
North America extends from the Arctic to Mexico, where a natural geographical boundary is formed with the tropics of Central and South America.
From Alaska, in the north to Arizona in the South, the Rocky Mountains stretch out like a beam supporting the whole subcontinent.
To the west lie hot desert plateaus and a mild coastal strip; to the east, flat prairies and deciduous forests; in the southeast,Florida's wetlands ; and in the north, pine forests and Arctic tundra.
From Alaska, in the north to Arizona in the South, the Rocky Mountains stretch out like a beam supporting the whole subcontinent.
To the west lie hot desert plateaus and a mild coastal strip; to the east, flat prairies and deciduous forests; in the southeast,Florida's wetlands ; and in the north, pine forests and Arctic tundra.
In North America
In North America , One of the most beautiful scenaries are in Yellowstone. sometimes heard as The Mother of All National Parks.
The Absaroka Range in the Rockies, just east of the North American continent's watershed, is where the Yellowstone River is born. In the small cascades it tumbles down into the Yellowstone National Park, and lingers a while in the 20-mile (30 km) wide waters of the Yellowstone Lake, safely watched over by around ten 11,500-foot (3,500 km) high sentinels with snow on their crowns. North of the lake the river meets LeHardy Rapids and soon after disappears over two vertical falls with a total drop of 423 feet (129m). Down in the Yellowstone, it continues on between yellow and orange walls, around Mount Washburn and meets the Tower Creek tributary, which falls and turns east, seeking the Missouri River that will carry it to the sea.
Yellowstone Lake; the highest mountain lake in the USA at an altitude of over 7,700 feet (2,300m), lies without a rippleon a crystalmorning.
"History of Yellowstone"
the first artists found their way here and on the heart-stopping bluff that became known as Artist Point, immortal masterpieces in oil were created, depiciting the fiery ravine and yellowstone Lower Fall.
general Washburn's expedition in 1870 to hear the nearby falls when they set up camp at Cascade Creek. Nathaniel Pitt Landford, later know as "National Park" Langford, recorded in his diary that he was "so confused" by his impressions- and described his " inability to cope with or even comprehend the mighty architecture of nature. More than all this I felt as never before my entire dependence on the Almighty Power who had wrought these wonders."
In 1900, thirty years after Washburn , the legendary natural historain John Muir wrote that Mother Earth , wherever in the world one meets her, always seems familiar. "But here the very ground is changed, as if belonging to some other world.....All the earth hereabouts seems to be paint."
More information about Yellowstone:
size: 3,470 dquare miles
altitude: 5,600-11,350 above sea level.
Landscape: Forested area in the Rockies on a volcanic "hot spot".
Last eruption: 630,000 years ago. 6 major geysiers, about 3,000 geyser plateaus, fumaroles, and hot springs.
America's largest mountain lake.
Vegetation: 80% of the area is forest. Large number of skeletal trees from the 1988 fire. Seven species of coniferous trees and 1,100 vascular plants.
Fauna:
Grizzly and black bears, coyotes, and pumas. Wolves eeadicated in 1930s niy reomtrpdiced om 1995. 30,000 elks, 250 pronghorns, and 1,500 bison. Also, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and trumpeter swans.
Cultural History:
10,000 year old Native American remains . 575 archaeological findings on 2% of the park area.
Conservation value: A geological archive of 55 million years of volcanic activity. The world's largest range of geothermal phenomena . Natural forest, grass plateaus , mountains, and water.
Tourism: 3.1 million visitors per year. (1999)
Threats:
Entered on the endangered list in 1995. Plans for quarrying , gas , and oil extraction, and geoenergy production close to the park may destroy the grizzly bear's habitat.
The Absaroka Range in the Rockies, just east of the North American continent's watershed, is where the Yellowstone River is born. In the small cascades it tumbles down into the Yellowstone National Park, and lingers a while in the 20-mile (30 km) wide waters of the Yellowstone Lake, safely watched over by around ten 11,500-foot (3,500 km) high sentinels with snow on their crowns. North of the lake the river meets LeHardy Rapids and soon after disappears over two vertical falls with a total drop of 423 feet (129m). Down in the Yellowstone, it continues on between yellow and orange walls, around Mount Washburn and meets the Tower Creek tributary, which falls and turns east, seeking the Missouri River that will carry it to the sea.
Yellowstone Lake; the highest mountain lake in the USA at an altitude of over 7,700 feet (2,300m), lies without a rippleon a crystalmorning.
"History of Yellowstone"
the first artists found their way here and on the heart-stopping bluff that became known as Artist Point, immortal masterpieces in oil were created, depiciting the fiery ravine and yellowstone Lower Fall.
general Washburn's expedition in 1870 to hear the nearby falls when they set up camp at Cascade Creek. Nathaniel Pitt Landford, later know as "National Park" Langford, recorded in his diary that he was "so confused" by his impressions- and described his " inability to cope with or even comprehend the mighty architecture of nature. More than all this I felt as never before my entire dependence on the Almighty Power who had wrought these wonders."
In 1900, thirty years after Washburn , the legendary natural historain John Muir wrote that Mother Earth , wherever in the world one meets her, always seems familiar. "But here the very ground is changed, as if belonging to some other world.....All the earth hereabouts seems to be paint."
More information about Yellowstone:
size: 3,470 dquare miles
altitude: 5,600-11,350 above sea level.
Landscape: Forested area in the Rockies on a volcanic "hot spot".
Last eruption: 630,000 years ago. 6 major geysiers, about 3,000 geyser plateaus, fumaroles, and hot springs.
America's largest mountain lake.
Vegetation: 80% of the area is forest. Large number of skeletal trees from the 1988 fire. Seven species of coniferous trees and 1,100 vascular plants.
Fauna:
Grizzly and black bears, coyotes, and pumas. Wolves eeadicated in 1930s niy reomtrpdiced om 1995. 30,000 elks, 250 pronghorns, and 1,500 bison. Also, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and trumpeter swans.
Cultural History:
10,000 year old Native American remains . 575 archaeological findings on 2% of the park area.
Conservation value: A geological archive of 55 million years of volcanic activity. The world's largest range of geothermal phenomena . Natural forest, grass plateaus , mountains, and water.
Tourism: 3.1 million visitors per year. (1999)
Threats:
Entered on the endangered list in 1995. Plans for quarrying , gas , and oil extraction, and geoenergy production close to the park may destroy the grizzly bear's habitat.