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Summer of Fire

Summer of Fire. Welcome. 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.".

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Summer of Fire

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  1. Summer of Fire

  2. Welcome

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. Location of Yellowstone

  6. X

  7. Scenes from Yellow Stone

  8. Mammoth Post Office

  9. Roosevelt Gate

  10. Old Faithful

  11. Steamboat Geyser

  12. The Dragon’s Mouth

  13. Shoshone Lake

  14. Shoshone Lake

  15. Mammoth Hot Springs concretions

  16. Mammoth Hot Springs

  17. Targhee National Forest

  18. Tower Falls

  19. Yellowstone Falls and Canyons

  20. Animals of Yellowstone

  21. Bull Elk

  22. Elk Calf

  23. Bison

  24. Gray wolf

  25. Grizzly Bear

  26. Grizzly bear feeding on elk carcass

  27. Black bear cub

  28. Cinnamon colored black bear

  29. Trumpet Swan

  30. Please don’t feed the Bears!

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

  32. Food conditioned bear

  33. Wildflowers

  34. Forest Fires in Yellowstone

  35. Black Saturday

  36. This photo was taken inYellowstone 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.

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