1. Yellowstone National Park
By:Martha Sukosky
Welcome to the home of the largest collection of
geysers,hot springs,mud pots and fumaroles,and lots and lots
of animals and plants.The park Yellowstone is a volcano.Come
and see Old Faithful and Yellowstone along with other features
inside Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone became a National Park on March 1,1872.It's a
park because of all its great features including the geysers,hot
springs,mud pots,fumaroles and deep canyon.These are
reasons why it is a National Park so people can come and see
them in the park.Some history on Yellowstone is in 1872
congress established Yellowstone the first National Park.Gold
and silver were mined just north of the boundaries in mines
long ago.Yellowstone is located in Wyoming,Montana and
Idaho.
The most famous feature in and most visited feature in
Yellowstone is Old Faithful a geyser.The Meadow grassland of
Hayden Valley north of Yellowstone lake is the prettiest area of
the park.Yellowstone has 200 geysers and 10,000 hot
springs.Yellowstone also has its own lake in the
park.Yellowstone is covered 75% of trees with Loge pole
pines.Loge pole pines,aspen spruce,and fir,nodding
onion,firewood,white bark,pine nuts,and butter root are all
grown in Yellowstone.A flower in Yellowstone is called
Lupine.Yellowstone has
antelope,deer,elk,buffalo,coyotes,packs of
wolves,bison,moose,big horn sheep,trumpeter swan,bald
eagle,black bears,grizzly bears,and native cutthroat trout are
all in Yellowstone.In quiet meadows elk go and call to their
heard.Big horn sheep are found in the quieter areas of
Yellowstone Park.
Some history of Yellowstone is that Yellowstone is the oldest
National Park.In the summer of 1988 Yellowstone had 8 fires!It
burned 1.4 million acres around and in Yellowstone!The fire

2. affected 20% of the park and 10% of the parks trees.The first
person ever to visit Yellowstone is John Colter.The culture of
Yellowstone's only resident that native people revolved are the
Bighorn sheep.As a part of the Yellowstone culture you can
watch cowgirls,cowboys,compete in bare back bronc riding,bull
riding,steer wrestling,steer roping,calf roping,barrel racing and
more.You can also watch powwows and learn about local
legend and history of Yellowstone National Park.Historic trails
in Yellowstone are the Oregon Trail,California trail,Mormon
trail,and pony express trail.
Challenges of Yellowstone National Park faces is the World
Heritage Committee listed Yellowstone as a world heritage in
danger.A fire in Yellowstone had killed 9 Bison,4 deer,and 2
moose and the fire also took out their vegetation.The fire in
Yellowstone also took out 2.2 million acres of land in
Yellowstone National Park at the time.Yellowstone had 8 fires
that year and in those 8 fires it took out a lot in and around
Yellowstone National Park when the fires happened.
Yellowstone attracts a lot of people every year.There are
great sites to see at Yellowstone too.Come and see Old Faithful
along with other great features in Yellowstone.Yellowstone has
lots of friendly resorts and buildings for you to see and stay in
too.Come and see Yellowstone today.It's amazing!