10 Surprising Facts About Yellowstone

mardi 8 décembre 2015

10 Surprising Facts About Yellowstone - by Kim Heacox/ News/ National Geographic/ news.nationalgeographic.com

"The world’s oldest national park changed the way people think about nature, leaving an enduring legacy.

Yellowstone, the world’s first—and still most famous—national park, was established in 1872, the year the Brooklyn Bridge opened and President Ulysses S. Grant completed his first term in the White House (then called the Executive Mansion). That same year Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days and Thomas Edison perfected the duplex telegraph. But nothing changed the world like Yellowstone.

The new park taught people the value of restraint; that we save wild places so they might one day save us..."


An aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring.
Photography by Norbert Rosing, National Geographic Creative


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10 Surprising Facts About Yellowstone

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