Much like its rock formations, the history of Badlands National Park is layered. To begin at the beginning and get a clue to the end, all one has to do is look at the park’s steeply eroded buttes, gullies, ridges and mixed-grass prairies....
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Grand Teton National Park
And on the 4.533 billionth year, roughly 9 million years ago, the Teton Range began to rise. Its peaks now stretch starkly toward the sky like, well... like towers of a cathedral. It's a wondrous view to behold, especially considering its contrast to the strikingly flat lands of Jackson Hole to its immediate east....
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Like so many of our National Parks, Yellowstone was created by a supervolcano. The loosely defined term 'supervolcano' is used to describe volcanic fields that produce eruptions exponentially larger in scale than those of average volcanoes. To give you some context, Yellowstone Supervolcano's first eruption produced 2,500x more....
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If the Blackfeet Indians are correct in calling the greater Glacier National Park ecosystem the 'backbone to the world,' then our 'backbone' is in significant danger of losing the cartilage between its vertebra....
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Because of its biological diversity, scientists have declared the entire park a biological reserve, which really means it gets double the protection from government with quadruple the fun in its four separate ecosystems....
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The lake was created around 8k years ago by the collapse of Mount Mazama volcano. Significant rain and snowfall in the area soon filled the crater, as did a small cinder cone volcano, Wizard Island, that erupted below the water's surface. As the lava cooled, the volcano quickly rose....
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Only 100 miles of California and Oregon coastline provide the damp ecosystem these beasts need to thrive, and they most certainly thrive. Some grow as tall as a 34 story building and the oldest of them is over....
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Lassen Volcanic National Park may not be the most visited National Park, but it's not for lack of beauty. The entire valley in this picture was once a supervolcano....
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