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    Point, Yosemite” could inspire a visual studies student to delve into further research on the creation of national parks, the politics surrounding their establishment or the establishment of Yosemite specifically, or even more specific research on either Theodore Roosevelt or John Muir. Personally, this image made me more interested in understanding the use of images to market the national parks in the early twentieth century and how this has changed with the rise of new technologies in the subsequent

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    Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is located in Wyoming, USA.Yellowstone national Park has beautiful scenery, astonishing geysers, and beautiful, big waterfalls that is truly something everyone must see. Yellowstone has many attractions that bring many people to the park. Yellowstone was first declared a national park on March 1st 1872. Yellowstone is 28,000 square miles of canyons, rivers, mountain range, lakes, and grass hills. Yellowstone has beautiful scenery and astonishing

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    frozen in time, it will continue to innovate and develop. The national parks protect the best of our natural heritage: stunning landscapes, extraordinary wildlife, and majestic forests. However, a climate change forces us to accept that those national parks are endangered and need to be protected. Warming temperature has become the nation’s superior issue that impacted the balance of the animals and their habitats in the national parks. Over centuries, without the cooperation of the community, it

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    Yellowstone is the first national park in the world and is also one of the the oldest. Yellowstone opened on March 1st,1872. Many people visit Yellowstone National Park usually 3,447,729 people visit a year. There is many attractions, including hot springs and mud spots, but the most admired of all is Old Faithful, the tallest geyser in the world. During an eruption the water is 204 degrees fahrenheit. The height of the water has been measured around 100-180 feet on an average around 130-140 feet

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    National parks are a government institution meant to preserve the natural wonders of America’s landscapes. Established as the first national park in the U.S. by Congress in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was intended as “a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” The Secretary of the Interior, along with other governmental departments like the War Department and the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture later worked to authorize additional national

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    The Effects of Drone Use in National Parks Drones have been a debatable topic since the 1930s. Some countries have banned them, some states have banned them, and even the United States National Park Service has banned them. There has been controversy for the last few years of this new rising robot on whether the U.S. National Park Service should allow it or whether it should be illegal in our parks. They were invented during World War II to help the military spy on enemies. Their technical term is

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    The National Park Service Organic Act: A Contradictory Mandate I. Introduction and Background The national parks of the United States are a part of the few remaining regions in the country where nature is relatively untouched and natural beauty can be observed. For over a century, national parks been popular vacation destinations for citizens and international tourists alike. Regulation and conservation of these areas is necessary to allow for continued visitation and enjoyment. The National Parks

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    The Day Of National Parks

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    Could it be getting back to our natural state or just trying to connect with God’s creation? Either way Millions of people travel to National Parks a year: 3 million traveled to yellowstone alone in 2015 (Visser). But sadly not all of them have favorable trips; in 2007 the National Park Service reported 3,593 search and rescue missions or SAR missions (National Parks). The average budget for SAR missions is $200,000 and each year that is exceeded. The solution is charge the bill of the mission to

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    Yellowstone Park was the world’s first established National Park in 1872, and as such was important for demonstrating the value of protected areas to preserve the rich biodiversity of “wild” areas. Protection meant that no one could lawfully settle here from this time forward and no one was allowed to extract minerals, timber and eventually even hunt in this area that covered 2 million acres. In 1916 the US National Park Service created the Organic Act of 1916 that stated the national parks must be

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    NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1.1 Introduction to the National Park Service: The National Park Service is an agency of the United States federal government that was established in 1916 with a mission to manage all U.S. National Parks, some American National Monuments, conservation and historical properties. More specifically the National Park Service was established to protect the nature and wildlife of special areas as well as to improve the experiences of visitors without sacrificing the nature’s resources

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