Yellowstone

=**Yellowstone National Park**= =**By: Jose Alcantar and Bradley Koster**= Yellowstone National Park was founded and established on March 1,1872. Yellowstone National park was the very first national park. It was established by the U.S. Congress and president Ulysses S. Grant. Its in 3 states, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. It is 3,472 square miles big, 96% of yellowstone is in Wyoming, three percent in Montana and one percent in Idaho. Yellowstone National park is bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware put together. Approximately five percent of Yellowstone is covered in water, 15 percent in grassland, and 80 percent is forested. The park is home to one of the world's largest calderas with over 10,000 thermal features and more than 300 geysers.



One of the most appealing attractions about yellowstone is the "old faithful" geyser. Old Faithful erupts appromixately once every 90 minutes. It is a cone geyser which erupts in a narrow jet of water, usually from a cone. 3,700 to 8,400 gallons of water are shot out each eruption depending on the length and size.

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Some geological features about yellowstone are that approximately 2,000 earthquackes occur there each year. Also their is more than 300 geysers there and an ACTIVE volcano! It is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largst supervolcano on the continent. It has 9 visitor centers, 12 campgrounds, and over 2,000 campsites.

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The Yellowstone River, which flows through the center of the national park has created acanyon similar to the grand canyon which they call the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It has one of the world's largest petrifiied forests. It has over 290 waterfalls with the 308' Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River as it's showpiece.



Yellowstone Nantional Park has a very vast number of animals and wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. It has 7 species of ungulates, 2 species of bear, and 67 other mammals, 322 species of birds, 16 species of fish and of course the gray wolf. There are over 1,100 species of native plants, more than 200 species of exotic plants and over 400 species of thermopholes.