Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. The park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining nearly-intact ecosystem in the Earth’s northern temperate zone. In 1978, Yellowstone was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. The park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining nearly-intact ecosystem in the Earth’s northern temperate zone. Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America. Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone. Yellowstone Park is the largest and most famous megafauna location in the contiguous United States, with grizzly bears, wolves, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk living in this park. The Yellowstone Park bison herd is the oldest and largest public bison herds in the United States and is the second-largest in the world after the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The human history of the park began at least 11,000 years ago when Indians began to hunt and fish in the region. During the construction of the post office in Gardiner, in the 1950s, an obsidian point of Clovis origin was found that dated from approximately 11,00 years ago. In 1978, Yellowstone was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion, which represents many types of biomes, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. Yellowstone has numerous recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, boating, fishing, and sightseeing.
Paved roads provide close access to the major geothermal areas as well as some of the lakes and waterfalls. In the winter, visitors often access the park by way of guided tours that use either snow coaches or snowmobiles. In 1806, John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805, encountered the Nez Perce, Shoshone, and Perce Crow tribes. While passing through the present day Montana, members of the expedition did not investigate the Yellowstone region to the south, but they did not heard of it to the north. In 1950s Montana Montana Montana, member of a regular expedition to the region, John Lewis and Colter encountered the Yellowstone Arrowheads, which have been found as far away as the Mississippi Valley, indicating that a obsidian trade existed between local tribes and farther east. The first white explorers entered the region during the 1805-1806 Nez perce expedition. In that year, they encountered the Nez Nez, Perce and Shosh one Crow, and they passed through the park on their way to the Great Lakes region. They did not hear of Yellowstone until the 1806-1807 expedition, when they encountered it on the way back to Montana. This is the first time that the Yellowstone River has been seen in its current form. The river is named for the yellow rocks seen in the Grand canyon of Yellowstone, but it is also known as the Roche Jaune, which is probably a translation of the Hidatsa name Mi tsi a-da-zi.
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