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Yellowstone National Park and the Yellowstone Caldera 'hotspot' are within it. [1] The area is a flagship site among conservation groups that promote ecosystem management. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is one of the world's foremost natural laboratories in landscape ecology and Holocene geology, and is a world-renowned recreational ...
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress through the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is a uniquely large contiguous ecosystem of the northern Rocky Mountains, within areas of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho in the northwestern United States. It includes the Yellowstone Caldera region, and is protected within 2 U.S. National Parks, 5 U.S. National Forests, and 10 Wilderness Areas.
The Snake River headwaters are part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which the National Park Service describes as "one of the largest nearly intact temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth." The region is home to some of the largest wild elk and bison populations in the US, and provides habitat for grizzly bear, wolverine and lynx. [ 197 ]
With its geysers and wildlife, it doesn’t take long to realize Yellowstone National Park is alive. A thousand-year flood event, as the National Park Service called it, wiped out bridges, homes ...
William D. Kelley – In 1871, he was the first Washington politician to suggest of what would later become Yellowstone National Park John F. Lacey – Iowa Congressman who sponsored The Lacey Act of 1884 to protect Yellowstone wildlife from poachers.
Mountain Ranges of Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Yellowstone in four mountain ranges. Two of ...
The park's largest recorded earthquake, a magnitude 6, occurred on June 30, 1975, along the north-central boundary of Yellowstone Caldera, a few miles southeast of Norris Geyser Basin. No injuries ...