North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park is an American national park in the state of Washington. It consists of a northern and southern section, bisected by the Skagit River that flows through Ross Lake National Recreation Area. The park is almost entirely protected as wilderness, and so the park has few structures, roads or other improvements. Most of the plant and animal species native to the park region are still found there.
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North Cascades National Park is an American national park in the state of Washington. It consists of a northern and southern section, bisected by the Skagit River that flows through Ross Lake National Recreation Area. The park is almost entirely protected as wilderness, and so the park has few structures, roads or other improvements. Most of the plant and animal species native to the park region are still found there, though climate change and pollutants from industrialized regions to the west pose risks to the environment. It has one of the earliest and longest lasting research programs dedicated to studying climate change, primarily through examining the effects of glacial retreat. Prehistoric micro blades 9,600 years old have been discovered at Cascade Pass, a mountain pass that connects the western lowlands to the interior regions of the park and the Stehekin River Valley. The region was first settled by Paleo-Indian Native Americans; by the time European American explorers arrived, it was inhabited bySkagit tribes. The first significant human impact in the region occurred in the 1920s when several dams were built to generate hydroelectric power. Environmentalists campaigned to preserve the remaining wilderness, culminating on October 2, 1968, with the designation of North Cascade National Park. An estimated 260,000 Native Americans lived in the late 18th century in the park as well as the surrounding area. Residing mainly to the north of park near Puget Sound, they lived in settlements that could house multiple families, each with their own partitioned area and entrance needs.
The Skagits formed a loose confederation of tribes that united if threatened by outside tribes such as the Haidas, who lived to the south. They erected large lodges that were 100 feet in length and 20-ft in width, with roofs that were 40ft in the width and 40-foot in the height of the lodges. They lived in what is now North CASCADES National Park, west of the Pugetsound Sound, and west of Lake Chelan, where they culled their livestock from the waterways and traveled by canoe from the park to the coast. In the early 19th century, the region was visited by fur trappers and several British and American companies vied for control over the fur trade. In addition to the two national recreation areas, other protected lands including several national forests and wilderness areas, aswell as Canadian provincial parks in British Columbia, nearly surround the park. The most expansive glacial system in the contiguous U.S. is the most expansiveGlaciers are found in the United States, and the headwaters of numerous waterways, and vast forests with the highest degree of flora biodiversity of any American national Park. The highest level of biodiversity in the U.N. national park is in the National Park Service’s Cascade Range, which includes the Grand Canyon, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Rainier, and Yosemite National Park and the Alaskan Inuit. The North Cascade Range is the largest mountain range in the world.
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