Journey Across America

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  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    Theodore Roosevelt As President, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands between 1901 and 1909, including 150 national forests, the first 55 federal bird reservation and game preserves, 5 national parks, and the first 18 national monuments;… Continue reading

  • Glacier National Park: Mountains, Glaciers and Lakes

    Glacier National Park consists of sedimentary rocks deposited in layers some 1.5 billion years ago. About 150 million years ago, plate tectonics pushed up and moved the sedimentary rocks forming a four-mile-thick slab of rock. About two million years ago,… Continue reading

  • Yellowstone: The First National Park and the Most Active

    Yellowstone National Park sits on a massive hot spot: This is the source of most of the local geological activity including the spectacular geysers and magnificent hot springs. There was an enormous volcanic eruption here 630,000 years ago, which left… Continue reading

  • Great Basin National Park – Mountains, Forests, Caves and Ancient Trees

    The Great Basin is a region lying northwest of the Colorado Plateau bounded by mountain ranges with no external drainage. The Great Basin National Park lies close to the border between Nevada and Utah, on the Nevada side; it overlooks… Continue reading

  • Capitol Reef – A Fold in the Earth

    Another great exposure of the Colorado Canyon’s stratigraphy, this one caused by an ancient fault, reactivated during a time of tectonic activity. The western side of the fault was elevated more than 7000 feet higher than the eastern side but,… Continue reading

  • Canyonlands—Island in the Sky

    The Canyonlands lie at the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers, each of which has eroded a deep canyon into the Colorado Plateau, creating a sort of “peninsula in the sky,” which is called Island in the Sky The… Continue reading