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An 11 page, historical overview of Yellowstone National Park. The writer discusses tribes that once inhabited the area, how public interest grew as the result of a 19th century mining expedition, and how preservation of the park has evidenced our commitment to nature. A section also covers the large-scale fires of 1988 which ripped through Yellowstone and left widespread damage. The 'let-burn' policy of allowing forest fires to continue burning naturally is explained. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Yeloston.rtf
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possibly hunted to extermination by man; but according to my pertinent research, nobody knows for sure. With food gone and plains baked by heat and drought, mans life patterns
changed. Hunters shifted to the pursuit of elk and deer and rabbits in uplands such as Yellowstone where high plateaus remained as refuges of relative coolness and moisture; green
havens with fish in the rivers and animals still grazing meadows. Families and bands from the Great Basin, already experienced in living off small game and arid-land plants, now
also moved to the Yellowstone region to escape the growing heat of their previous territory. (Haines, 1977). About 1000 B.C. the climate moderated.
Herds of buffalo and elk again massed on the plains outside Yellowstone as well as on ranges within the park, and again man adapted to meet new economic opportunities.
The patterns of Indian life reported by the first European explorers began to be established. The Yellowstone region, headwaters for the Madison, Yellowstone and Snake Rivers, was long supposed
to have acted as a buffer zone; a geographic barrier; between the different cultures surrounding the park area. More recent evidence, however, testifies to a mixing of cultures.
Yellowstone became a meeting ground as bands traveled there for pigments or obsidian or other resources not readily plentiful elsewhere. (Haines, 1977). To the east
and North were the Plains tribes, Crows and Blackfeets were people who lived vigorously and well by hunting buffalo. To the northwest were the Flatheads, more adapted to intermontane
life. At times the hunters from these tribes entered the park. Circles of stones that may have once snugged the bottoms of their tipi skins to the ground
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