National Parks Mrs. Mulligan’s 5th Grade Class 2016-2017
Death Valley Death Valley is located in Nevada and California. Death Valley is the hottest prak. The hottest temperature in Death Valley was 134.There are a lot of animals that live in Death Valley such as coyotes, bobcats, nine species of bats, kangaroos foxes There are many plants in the valley like creosote bush, Joshua Tree mesquite and desert holly.
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Death Valley Monument Was discovered in 1849 and it became a national park in 1994. Death Valley was named by gold seekers who crossed the desert. Death Valley has a volcano crater called Ubehebe Crater.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National park is in the northwest corner of Montana and it is 1,013,322 acres. It is full of beautiful animals like the mountain goat and grizzlys. Glacier was founded in 1919 and Waterton Glacier was the first ever international peace park.
Glaciers climate is warm in the summer cold in the winter. A lot like mid west weather a good 50 inches of rain Can get to 20 below zero and 96 degges
Glacier National park
Glaciers landforms include mountains,glaciers,tundra,and forests. Glacier was home to many different tribes of native americans. When settlers came they soon realize that Glacier was a special piece of land. Humans and global warming are melting glaciers in the park
Glacier is a beautiful park that we should help save Glacier National Park
Joshua Tree! By Sylvia
Joshua tree is located in southern Palm Springs, California U.S It became a national park in 1936. Joshua Tree is 1,234 square miles (3,196 square km).
The elevations of the park are above 3,000 ft (900 m). The western part of the park rises to about 4,250 ft (1,300 m). The climate is warm, dry and hot summers and cool winters. Highs temperatures can be 100.f (38.c) but lower night time temperature can drop below freezing. Brief summer thunderstorms can cause flash flooding. Snow can fall at higher elevations in winter. Temperatures changes are big cand an be 40.f to 22.c in one day! .
Two desert systems and high desert are found in Joshua tree. So is the coxcomb, mountain, and sandy plains.
Small rodents, mules, deers, mountain sheep, ground squirrels, and coyotes are some mammals that live here. Here are some amphibians that live here: tree frogs, and red-spotted toads. These are found in rocky canyons after it rains. In Joshua Tree there are four different plants that are rare. Bryophytes was the first plant in Joshua tree. Some cacti that are found here are pencil cholla ,and hedgehog cactus.
In 1990 a Native american woman named Barbara became the first to be a superintendent.
Joshua tree is most famous for its rare joshua trees. Some activities to do at Joshua tree are hiking through Hidden Valley. Keys View and other nature trails. Other places to hike to are Cholla Cactus Garden, and Skull Rock.
Today deserts and caves are caved in because people walk on them.
Fun facts: There are 250 different kinds of birds living in Joshua Tree and is a resting stop for birds when they migrate south.
MAMMOTH CAVES By Marvin Mammoth Caves is located in Kentucky. It became a park on July 1, 1941. The size of the park is 83 square miles.It’s famous for its large system of caves. The climate of Mammoth Caves is about 55F (13*C) 5*F (3*C).In Mammoth Cave National Park there are lakes, ponds and swamps. Some of the animals that live in the Mammoth Cave Park are cave crickets, eyeless fish,eyeless crayfish, squirrels and bears.
Mammoth Caves National Park Theres about 1,500 flowering plants in Mammoth Cave N.P. Mammoth Caves have amazing plants like:beech trees, rue anemone,blue phlox, bloodroot,dogwood, columbine, bellwort, red maple.These are some things you can do in Mammoth Caves: cave tours, surface hikes,canoeing on the Green River, picnicing, horse back riding, bicycling,camping and more.
HELEAKALA
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Haleakala is a national park in Maui,Hawaii in this article, you will tlearn all about the national park.
first to discover Heleakala. And it became its own park in 1961.
Heleakala has many plants and animals. A silversword a cactus plant that is in Heleakala and some animals that live there are bats,geese and sea turtles. Heleakala ha s a volcano that is 20 miles long.And you can take tours of the park and get to look at the silversword cactus up close.
Haleakala National Park is an international biosphere reserve and it supports the native ecosystem in its volcanic landscape.
THE CLIMATE OF HALEAKALA GETS VERY HOT. THE HIGHEST IT'S EVER GOT WAS 62.8f . AND THE AVERAGE RAIN IS 49.75 A YEAR.
Heleakala supports its environment and the rangers of the park love their park and support it very much. If you get a chance to go there you can observe the animals and Silver sword plants and animals of Haleakala.
Bryce Canyon Located in Utah, Bryce Canyon was named after Ebenezer Bryce.Bryce Canyon isn’t that big,it’s only 56 sq. miles and is about 9000 ft above sea level. One thing about Bryce Canyon is the legend about the rock people. The rock people were thought to be animals but looked a lot like humans before even the indians were around.
One day the rock people angered the god Coyote. Coyote was so angry he
turned them into stone which is still there today. Another thing about the rocks is the colors of the rocks. They have the various shades of orangish,pinkish,and whitish colors.The stones in Bryce Canyon are not very strong at all,and that’s because the rocks are made of limestone and layers of sandstone.
There some parks that are actually a lot closer than you think. Zion,Cedar Breaks,and one of the seven wonders of the world,the Grand Canyon are actually so close they connected them with tunnels.Some cool rock forms are these holes in rocks called windows. About 60 million years ago,rocks came up from the ground. And raised thousands of feet from the water. Over time the rocks expanded by water freezing at night and the ice
expanded the rocks. One thing about Bryce Canyon, is you get great views of the night sky because of not many trees are up top. Some of the animals there are the mountain lion,deer,porcupines, chipmunks,and more alike. Also there were prairie dogs which just came back. Another thing in the park, the park such as the popular Aspen,also the lower Pinon Pine , and Utah Juniper trees that the steller's jay ,blue grouse,and the ravens like.
Grand Teton Grand Teton is one of the most frequently visited National Parks in America. Located in Wyoming and just south of Yellowstone. Grand Teton was originally established in 1929, but was reestablished in 1950, when most of the Jackson Hole National Monument (a lush valley and wildlife preserve in the mountains) was incorporated. The park is 484 square miles in total, including over 235 square miles of hiking trails and rock climbing to explore. For thousands of years, native americans like the Flathead, the Shoshone, Bannock, Crow, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre, lived in the Grand Tetons and their culture can now be explored at the Indian Arts Museum in the park.
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Les Trois Tetons
Jackson Hole National Monument
In the winter of 1807-1808 an Englishman named John Colter came to the Tetons to trap animals. Upon seeing the mountains the Canadian-French trappers named three of them Les Trois Tetons. Once Jackson town was founded, more people came to the park and began to form farms and businesses for personal gain. To save the beautiful land, it was issued as a national park in the early 1900s. The towering peaks of the Grand Teton range extend for almost 40 miles with the majority of the mountains climbing higher than 12,000 feet high. The Grand Teton mountain itself is 13,770 feet, the tallest in the park.
The dazzling Jackson Hole National Monument, is a fertile valley and wildlife reserve with a wide range of animals and the dazzling Snake River that winds through it. The Tetons are filled with animals, from raptor birds like the golden eagle and the osprey, to their prey, the yellow-bellied marmot, and the cutthroat trout. The park also provides homes The park has over 1,000 species of vascular plants and Jackson Hole’s rocky soil is a perfect home for big leaf sagebrush. The Grand Tetons tend to have cold, long winters and pleasant summers. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the park was -63 degrees fahrenheit! Grand Teton has many interesting activities in the park. Wildlife viewing is a popular choice.
Visitors may try to spot coyotes, beavers, bison, moose, and even the occasional black bear. Hiking is another favored activity, as many miles of hiking trails wind through the park. Skiers swarm park in the winter to cross country ski across the barren mountain peaks or dare to downhill ski on the icy mountain slopes. Mankind has had a large impact on the park. They have caused fires, floods, and even earthquakes. One of the most common problems humans have brought into the park are non-native plants and animals, that are threatening to take over the park. Though the park has changed in many ways people continue to make this place the beautiful Grand Tetons it has always been.
Isle Royale is located Lake Superior in northwestern Michigan, U.S. It was established in 1931 April 3rd. The history of Isle Royale’s development is that first it was light house and people decided that they wanted to add something else to it so they decided to build a national park that is now Isle Royale.
The size of Isle Royale is that it has an area of 893 sq miles (2,313 sq km) 45 miles (72 km) long sq miles.(14 km) across. Isle Royale is famous for its animals and its plants. Isle Royale is very famous for its plants because Isle Royale has the rarest plants. The climate is very strange in Isle Royale.
It can be 94 degrees and the lowest temperature is -20 degrees. Isle Royale has some landforms. The first land form is mountains, rivers and lakes. Isle woyale has animals and plants.The animals are Wolves,moose, trout,whitefish, and 200 species of birds.The plants are Jack pines,spruces, Picea mariana, Picea glauca, and conifers.
If you are thinking of going to visit Isle Royale you might want to know the activities they have, they activities are hiking,kayaking, canoeing,and scuba diving. There are some things that happened because of human interaction.The water is polluted and fishes have died. A interesting fact is that it is the largest island of Lake Superior.
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GLACIER BAY Glacier Bay became a national park in 1980. Before it was a park national monument in 1925.t is locatered in Alaska. It is a big park that is 3.3million acres. The park is famous for its large glaciers.
The park has mild winters and cool and moist summers. There are 7about 0 inches of percipitation in the park every year. The kinds of landforms that are found in the park are mountains, glaciers, temperate rain forests, fjords and coastlines.
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There are many animals that live in the park Some live in the ocean like the humpback whale and harbor seals, sea lions fish and other animols like deer insects. ..
Great Sand Dunes The Great Sand Dunes National Park is located in south central Colorado. It became a park in 2004.alot of people have wanted to live close to great sand dunes but sense is so hot people haven't been able to live there
Because is kind like a desert,not at all
Birds The brown capped rosy finch make there nest higher than any bird becaus they live in cool places
White tail ptarmigas are birds that act like chickens that they walk but not fly and bury them selves in blizzards
The america pika are mammals that live in the cool places of great sand dunes
The bull snake is a snake that can grow more than 5 feet these are non-poison snakes
Mt Rainier
Mount Rainier national park was founded on March 2, 1899 and joined the U.S as 5th registered national park.It is currently located in Washington. At a size of 236,381 acres and 91,000 old trees from the first year of the park Mount Rainier is one of the smaller parks. Wildlife on Mt Rainier is found in many forms such as the queen's cup wildflower the northern spotted owl and the little brown bat. The climate is typically cold and rainy, in the summer its mostly in the upper 60Ĺ› and 70Ĺ›. Many land forms in Mount Rainier consist of glaciers and various
Mountains . Mount Rainier has gained fame over the years due to its popular volcano (which remains active), will it erupt? No one is sure but scientists have proved that mt rainier is indeed an active volcano.This national park has gained tourism also due to its many forms of wildflowers such as the queen's cup
Mt Rainier
If you visit this park you can be sure to see large amounts of wildflowers and other vegetation.
In the summer many birds, bugs and various forms of butterflies move to the vast plains to feed on the many gorgeous flowers that bloom on and around the volcano. You can see some of these plants to the right.
Things you can do for fun in this park consist of doing a roleplay from 1899, going on a hiking trip with a park ranger or simply enjoying the natural wonders of the park. I hope I have convinced you to pay a visit to this park!
Mesa verde Mesa Verde National Park is located in southwestern Colorado. It became a national park on June 29, 1906. The Anasazi lived in the area of the park in 550 AD. They built homes into the cliffs. The area of the park is 81. 25 miles.
They are lot’s of activities at Mesa Verde like hiking trails, tour of th ruins, and a museum. Mesa Verde has a lot of plants and animals like snakes, coyotes, lizards, and birds. The plants are the pin-juniper, and the sage-bush plant.
People can go on a trip to Mesa Verde to learn about the park. People can observe the famous cactus. The climate is dry, hot, and the highest temperaturecan be in the 90s. The winters are mild.The park gets only a few inches of rain eachyear.
KINGS CANYON
The size of Kings Canyon is 1,370 to 14,494 ft. Kings Canyon famous well it is famous for its views and nature
Kings Canyons climates is sometimes up and down like first summer hot then it´s winter cold and yes it does rain there sometimes.
KINGS CANYON
Kings Canyon was created in September 25,1940. Kings Canyon is located in California ! .
Kings Canyon has marmot, pikas, gray foxes, bobcats, black bear,mice, quall, scrod jay, snake, and last but not least whiptail lizard .
Acadia ,many more! Acadia is a magnificent national park located on the eastern coast of Maine, being one of the smallest of the of the national parks at 65 square miles established in It is also home to 1916! many plants such as arrowheads, blue eyed grass, chokeberries, and much more more. It is home to many wildlife such as the redbelly snake, hawks,wood turtles
Acadia was once home to Native Americans in 1604.Then later intruded by the Europeans.
Acadia has gained fame by restoring Mount desert island, making it a often visited for winter and summer vacation.
Acadia is very Rocky and sandy beach type of island.
If you are ever interested in visiting Acadia you can go snowmobiling, skiing, and dog sledding!
Zion Zion National Park is located in Utah,and was established on November 19 1919. The park is 15 miles long and 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation.But Zion isn’t just amazingly huge it has beautiful dramatic landscapes that will blow you away. In the summer it can get to the high of 100 Fahrenheit so you might want to bring a pair of shorts.
The Virgin River's water is so strong that the water carved into the rocks! There also is so many things found in Zion. There's been mountain lions, golden eagles, and tiny pinon mice. This is one of zion’s caves (Red Cave Slot Canyon)
Zion Well, maybe you’re thinking, ‘’Well what is there to do at Zon?’’ There's actually a lot to do there. You can hike, go horseback riding, cycling, and you can go listen to a staff talk about the cool and amazing things about Zion. There also have been movies filmed at Zion such as ‘’Butch Cassidy and the Sundace kid” There’s also a cave (Zion MT Carmel Tunnel) that is 1.1 miles long!!! Zion actually has a subway!Zion also has one of the largest freestanding arches in the world! Here’s a picture of The movie
Biscayne Bay Biscayne was discovered in 1513 by Juan Ponce De Leon after he found a bay on his trip from St. Augustine. He proclaimed that it was “ Stunning view what would I do to live here..” Centuries later a man named Ernest F. Coe proposed it to be a national monument on October 13, 1968. It turned into a national park in 1980. Biscayne bay has a surface area of 270 square miles, and which 95% of it is water! Biscayne is located 20 miles away from Miami. The average climate
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is 66-77 degrees fahrenheit and an average rainfall of 2.1 inches. Coral reefs, mangroves and islands are the landforms, this park leads into the ocean.
BISCAYNE Biscayne is a home for many different species including many endangered species such as Schaus Swallowtail and semphine cactus.There are over 200 endangered species! Some more common species include coral reefs, over 200 species of fish, manatees, sea turtles, shrimp, and lobster! There are six shipwrecks which include ships that sunk in 1891 to 1966!You can scuba dive to see them! Humans have had two nuclear power plants in biscayne but only one stands now! It’s a few miles away from Biscayne bay!
Hot Springs By:Iris Mabel Hot Springs is located in Hot Springs,Arkansas and was a reservation from 1832 until it became a national park in 1921.There are many landforms in Hot Springs from the springs to Hot Springs Mountain to Ouachita Mountains. Plus the wildlife is made mostly of small rodents,bats,insects and bears.And the plant life mostly consists of wild flowers and trees.
Hot Springs was the first piece of land set aside by the fed. gov. to preserve as a area for recreation. American Indians used to live in Hot Springs but got driven out by Americans. Hot Springs was part of the Louisiana Purchase.and has been around for 8,000 years at least from of what we know of. There are 47 hot springs.
If you're planning a trip to Hot Springs you might want to bring a sweater because it can get to 20F but can also get to 100F and can be humid. And if you want to hike around Hot Springs it might take a day or two because Hot Springs is 5,000 acres and is the smallest park,plus the oldest park managed by N.P.S. Hot Springs flows well over one million gallons a day.
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American Samoa The island of American Samoa is Fatu rock is a famous located in the South attraction to visit found Pacific Ocean. It is there. located 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii. It was established in 0ctober 31, 1988. The size of it is 76.83 square miles. The temperature is usually between 80.6 F to 96.8 degrees. It is warm,humid, and rainy year round.
American Samoa Five different islands are found there.
The activities you can do there are surfing, mountain climbing, kayaking, and swimming.
The animals that live there are flying foxes, rare pidgeons, skinks, and geckos. Also, ferns, dicots, and monocots of all kinds.
The islands are threatened by by global warming and too many people are moving there.
EverGlades The Everglades National Park is located Southern Florida. It became a national park 1934 and 1947. It was water over the everglades and when it went down the animals were dying. The size of the Everglades is 6,110 km.The Everglades protects 25 percent of the original wetlands in Southern Florida. THe Everglades was created to protect the wildlife.
The weather in the Everglades is mostly cloudy and sunny and they only have 2 seasons there.The Everglades has Shark Valley there and a tower where people see all of the wetlands
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You can go on tours in speed boats and look for birds.First Native Americans came after that the Spanish came and lots of native americans died that day. When the natives live there they survived by kill and roasting the food that the found like crocodiles.when the spanish lived there they couldn’t survive like the native’s.
Olympic National park was founded in 1938 by President Franklin .D. Roosevelt.It's located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State U.S.A. and is 1,442 square miles.
Landforms include Mount Olympus (2,428 meters or 7,965 feet tall), olympic mountains, ancient glaciers and, Mount deception
Recreational activities include hiking, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding and camping
Animal life includes rare Roosevelt Elk and other animals such as the large yellow pacific banana slug,deer,couga rs, ,back bears, salmon and trout, chipmunks, salamander, marmot, mountain goats,newts, frogs and, toads.
The highest recorded temp.was 97 degrees fahrenheit. The low was 2 degrees fahrenheit
Plant life includes Sitka Spruce,Western hemlock, fir trees,lichens,fer ns and, mosses.
Channel islands Channel islands is located off the southern coast of California. There is more than one island ,there are five. The biggest island size is around one hundred fifty miles. It became a national park in the year 1980. it was found by a portuguese explorer juan rodriguez in 1542. There are over seven hundred types of plants such as the pine tree and dandelion tree. There are more than seven hundred thousand people that visit each year. Some animals that are found there are the endangered blue whale also,the island endemic gray fox ,and the the california seal There is many landforms such as mountains ocean and water caves. Some activities are diving , kayaking
One interesting fact is that channel islands used to be used for navy training. One big fact and part is the big oil spill . on january, 28 ,1969 there was an oil spill it was one of the biggest oil spill in america. The oil covered six miles of land. It took approximately eleven days to clean up the 200,,000 gallons of oil.
The Redwood Forest The redwood
There also National park was Happened to be Founded in 1968 in Many different Crescent City, CA Tribes such as: 95531 it's famous Tolowa, Whikut, for Obviously its Nongati, Mattole Redwood trees, and And Sinkyone and its curious history. about one century American Indians Later Yurok and Wiyot were associated with the ecosystems for hundreds of years.
That the Redwood Forest use to cover over 2,000,000 now 96% of trees have been logged and only 100000 acres remain
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number of beautiful species of animals such As : Elk, black bear, coyote cougar, Bobcat Beaver River otter, Black tailed Elk That is only 8 of 40-200 species of animals in the Redwood Forest
The Smoky Mountains The climate in the Smokies ranges from 10 to 20 degrees in the Winter. But in the Spring the temp can get up to 80 degrees fahrenheit! Also in the Spring rain is very common and in the summer the weather gets hot and humid. Fall can have warm days and freezing nights and by November snow starts to fall. The Smokies history starts 1,000 years ago when Cherokee Indians moved into the mountains. Then in the early 1800`s settlers built their homes and shops in Cades Cove, which is a huge valley in the smokies. The settlers depended on Cades Cove for farmland and lumber. And now you can visit the homes and churches the settlers made.
The idea for the Smokies name came from the Cherokee Indians they named it Shaconage also Known as The land of the blue smoke. It got this name because of the blue smoke that hovers above the smokies mountains and valleys. The Smokies is located on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. And the park was established in 1934 to protect the last area of Southern primeval hardwood forest in the United States. The Smoky mountains cover about 244,000 acres of Tennesee and about 276,000 acres of North Carolina and that is about 526,000 acres which is over 800 square miles! And without estimating the Smokies is exactly 522,427 acres!
The Smoky Mountains There are more than 380 kinds of non-native plants in the Smokies and more than 35 of them spread aggressively out-competing many native plants for habitat. and more than 1,600 flowering plants live in the Smokies and around 450 non-flowering plants live there too.
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There are many activities you can do in the Smokies for example you could hike in the mountains or go biking, fishing, camping and go horseback riding. There are more than fourteen activities you could do in the Smokies and some of the main ones are camping, hiking and fishing.
The smoky mountains is the biggest national park east from the rocky mountains Nine to ten million people visit it each year About 1,500 black bears live there The smokies is dedicated to franklin roosevelt It has more than 2,115 miles of streams and rivers
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Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is located in Idaho and Montana. It became a national park in 1872 and it was the first national park in the United States. Yellowstone Park is 3,468 square miles. Old Faithful is a geyser at the park that people come to see. It shoots out water and steam at regular times each day. The kind of landforms that are in the park tall mountains, deep canyons, hot springs and geysers.
Some of the animals that live in the park are Bears, coyotes, bald eagles ,snakes, frogs and lizards. Some things you can do in the park or hiking ,camping, boating and fishing.
National Park Dry Tortugas This park is made in 1935 on January 4th. It was a military base before it became a park. It was measured 47,125 acres in 1983. First this park was called Fort Jefferson Monument designated by President F.D.R. This park is famous for its beautiful coral reef and it was a military base.
The most common animals are green sea turtles, lizards, frogs and lots of bird life. The temperatures mostly are in the 60 to 90. The park barely gets snow in the winter.