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    The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, extends for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km), that covers land in two North American countries! With a distance of 3,000 miles, the Rockies must have a variety of physical features and landscapes that makes it an attractive area to tour and explore. However, all of the human interest in this mountain range could come at a devastating cost. Disturbances such as resource extraction, tourism/settlement, and farming in the Rocky Mountain region must cease because

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    Rocky Mountain Research Paper

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    The Rocky Mountains are an incredible mountain range located in North America in the Western Hemisphere. The mountain range stretches from northern Colorado and into southwestern Canada. It is home to a diverse ecosystem, both geographically and biologically and is revered as a monumental landform worldwide. The geologic history of the Rocky Mountains has come about as an aggregation of millions of years. Briefly speaking, the formation of the Rockies transpired from hundreds and millions of years

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    Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

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    “What did Bridger leave behind?”, you may ask, let me tell you. To start out, all Mountain Men left the legacy of exploring most of the west in search of fur (beavers), while they were searching for fur they found new routes to Oregon and California. Their trading posts also became supply stations for settlers moving West. Jim was a trapper, hunter, Indian fighter, and one of the few mountain men to stay in the Rockies after the fur trade was over. Jim was selected in 1824 to explore Bear River, and

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    Rocky Mountain National Park is located in northern Colorado and spans the Continental Divide. It encompasses protected mountains, forests and alpine tundra. It's known for the Trail Ridge Road and the Old Fall River Road which include aspen trees and rivers. It is in a Coniferous Forest, or taiga biome. The northern coniferous forest, or taiga, extends across northern North America and Eurasia to the edge of the arctic tundra. The northern coniferous forest is the largest terrestrial biome on Earth

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    Rocky Mountain National Park has it all: a pristine mountain lake, aspen leaves trembling in the breeze, craggy mountain peaks covered in snow. Although Rocky Mountain National Park is an eighth the size of Yellowstone, it packs everything in it’s 266,714 acres of land. Majestic mountain views can be found literally everywhere, and you don’t even have to step out of your car to see it! Grasslands, forests, and even glaciers can be explored in Rocky Mountain National Park. After a quick 2 hour

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    Describe: Albert Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and David P. Bradley's, Indian Country Today (1997) are created by different authors, possible for different reasons, but they have a similar subject matter. They both picture nature. Bierstadt's painting shows the landscape of the Rocky Mountains, hence the name. Pictured are rolling valleys, rugged mountains, and what looks like a civilization of Native Americans. On the other hand, Bradley's painting is an example of how modern

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    The Causitive Agent of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever The Bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii is the small, aerobic gram-negative bacterium that is the cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans (and other vertebrates). They are obligate, intracellular bacteria that range in size form 0.2x0.5 µm to 0.3x2.0µm. Rickettsia belong to the phylum alpha-protobacteria, which are capable of growing in low levels of nutrients, and have a long generation time relative to other gram negative bacteria such

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    •Rocky Mountains• (Geography Assessment) Location Map (Drawn) •Description Of Location• The Rocky Mountains are a large mountain range in the Western part of North America in the United States and Canada. The Rocky Mountain Range also known as the “Rockies” go through Northern New Mexico and into Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana which make this Mountain Range quiet big in size. In Canada the range goes along the border of Alberta and British Columbia. The Rocky Mountain Range go

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    The Rocky Mountain Trail

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    times would blend into the rocky terrain and become challenging to follow. Silhouetted against the grayish sky to our immediate left were two rock strewn peaks that spiked into view through the thick air above us. Stemming from the main trail a faint path snaked its way to an area between and below the peaks and gradually faded into the rugged terrain. From previous expeditions on the Sauk, I knew the summit trail would continue and circle north on a ridge around a rocky pinnacle directly above the

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    Have you ever wondered about Montana, have you ever been to the Rocky Mountains or do you know anybody that retired and moved to the Rocky Mountains or somewhere in Montana? If not and if you just want to learn about Montana continue reading and you will learn all about Montana. Montana is the mostly densely populated state. Montana is from the Spanish word Montana (mountain or mountainous region) 2,700 African Americans live here. Montana’s first African Americans’ arrived in

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