Yellowstone National Park

It's about 2,150 miles by road from NYC to the east entrance of Yellowstone.

This is the deep mantle hotspot that is located approximately under Yellowstone National Park and is responsible for producing all the geothermal phenomena in and around the park.

There are a few dozen deep mantle hotspots scattered around the world, including Iceland, Hawaii, Samoa, Easter Island, East Australia, Bermuda, Marion, Reunion, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Afar, Mount Etna, Azores.

They hope and expect the herds of big grazers will decrease in size and be more healthy as the wolves will prey on the weaker animals first. The same will happen with American schoolchildren going on outings to the park. Only the healthy and strong will survive, making America's youth stronger than ever before.

Most of the geysers found in Yellowstone National Park are small and splash only about ten feet in height. There are only six grand geysers that erupt 100 feet or higher. The most famous of these is Old Faithful, which erupts once every 45 to 90 minutes.

Specifically for tranquilizing 'nuisance' bears, yes.

Yellowstone is arguably one of the best protected parks because of its high profile. The continued protection of the park depends on managing people so that they do not cause harm to the environment and the animals' habitat or behavior, and managing the wildlife so that it is healthy and not degrading the land. Conflict has always come along the park border where park animals mingle with private ranching operations; bison, elk, bears, and wolves can be a nuisance to people trying to earn a living off the land. Someday, though, the whole thing will blow up.

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The wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone in 1995. They brought them there from Canada.

The initial group of wolves was 31 introduced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is now approximately 2,000 today. The species lives in only 2 percent of it's original territory. Their reintroduction has helped with overgrazing by elk and deer and allowing the natural growth to prosper. This is considered to one of the great conservation tasks of the 20th century.

'Smarter than the average bear, Boo Boo'.... Sorry ! That's Jellystone !... Lol

Steamboat geyser is the tallest at 300 ft tall at times. But Old Faithful is probably the largest. It erupts only 100-180 ft tall but releases 8500 gallons of water with each eruption.

Billings, Montana (population 104,934) is the closest major city with a population of over 100,000.

Gateway communities for Yellowstone National Park include Livingston, MT; Gardiner, MT; Cooke City, MT; Jackson, WY; Cody, WY; and West Yellowstone, MT.

Bozeman, Montana (population about 34,000), about 90 miles north of the park, also the largest airport in the region.

Could it? Yes. Will it? Probably not. The volcano in Yellowstone has magmatic eruptions at intervals of tens of thousands of years and has super eruptions at intervals of hundreds of thousands of years. The chances of an eruption occurring in our lifetime is extremely small.

It's located in Wyoming, Monatana, and Idaho.

Yes. The Absaroka Range, the Washburn Range, and the Gallatin Range are all part of the Rocky Mountains.

Stock up on dehydrated foods, water, camping supplies, medical supplies, ammunition, clothing, and gas up the truck (jeep if you HAVE one). Head toward the tropics. The Mediterranean might be nice, but you can't drive there from here. Somewhere around the Equator is where you would have the best chance for survival from the imminent eruption of North America's wildest SuperVolcano.

Yellowstone actually lies in 3 states. WY has the largest part, ID is to the western part of Yellowstone and MT is to the north. Take a look at visitingparks.com/YellowstoneMap.htm for a map. Click on the Ter option for the best view and then zoom out (-) For videos and park maps, go to visitingparks.com/Yellowstone.htm If you plan on going to the park, it is just magnificent.

Ulysses S. Grant (US President from Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877) established Yellowstone as the world's first national park on March 1, 1872. The area of Yellowstone is located mostly in the state of Wyoming, but also stretches into parts Montana and Idaho.

Yellowstone is famous because of Old Faithful Geyser and bears. It should be famous for many other things than that.

Yellowstone's grand vistas, huge mountains, deep canyons, roaring rivers, expansive lush meadows, high plains and abundant wildlife have been attracting photographers and sightseers from all over the world since William Henry Jackson sent home the first photos in 1871.

Geothermal Features: With half of the earth's geothermal features, Yellowstone holds the planet's most diverse and intact collection of geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles. Its more than 300 geysers make up two thirds of all those found on earth. Combine this with more than 10,000 thermal features comprised of brilliantly colored hot springs, bubbling mudpots, and steaming fumaroles, and you have a place like no other.

Yellowstone is widely considered to be the finest megafauna wildlife habitats in the lower 48 states. Animals found in the park include the majestic American bison (buffalo), grizzly bear, black bear, elk, moose, mule deer, pronghorn, wolverine, bighorn sheep and mountain lion (puma).

Yellowstone National Park is managed to protect cultural and natural resources and outstanding scenery, and to provide for visitor use. Angling has been a major visitor activity for over a century. Present regulations reflect the park's primary purposes of resource protection and visitor use.

The Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field developed through three volcanic cycles spanning two million years that included some of the world's largest known eruptions. Eruption of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff about 2.1 million years ago created the more than 75-km-long Island Park caldera.

Yellowstone National Park is a focal point for cutting-edge microbiology research and how it provides a valuable setting for outreach education. extremophiles, microbe diversity and evolution are studied here. Scientists who study extreme environments are drawn to Yellowstone because it contains more active geothermal features than any other location on the planet. Those features are also very diverse.. Geothermal environments are obviously very hot, but they offer a variety of chemical extremes, some of which are relevant to applications in bioenergy and bioprocessing.

Yellowstone is a famous place but famous for some of its most superficial things.

National parks are created with the dual mandate of preserving the park's resources while providing for the enjoyment of the people. Unfortunately, people can "love parks to death" and mar the very beauty they go there to seek.

One example is Yellowstone National Park, where people throwing coins and trash into geysers and pools has clogged some of them to the point that the geysers stop erupting and the pools lose their colorful algae growths.

Another example would be the National Mall, where the grass has been so badly trampled that areas have had to be fenced off to let the sod recover.

The challenge for park managers is to balance protection with use. Heavily-trafficked trails might require boardwalks or barriers to keep people on the trail, for example.

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West Yellowstone, MT and the West Yellowstone Regional Airport (commercial air service June to October only) are 1 mile from the western entrance to Yellowstone National Park.

Jackson, WY and the Jackson Hole Airport are 56 miles from the southern entrance to the park.

Cody, WY and the Yellowstone Regional Airport are 53 miles from the east entrance.

Bozeman, MT and Gallatin Field are 87 miles from the West Yellowstone entrance.

Billings, MT and Logan International Airport are 129 miles from the Cooke City, MT entrance.

some sources say that when it does erupt it would probably cause a chain reaction of other volcanos around it. Plus it can cause some species to go extinct.

This geography was well known to the indigenous peoples -- the Native American Minnetaree tribe -- who lived in the area, and who named it for the yellow rocks and soil in the canyon where the Yellowstone river flows. Their initial explorations are not well documented and may be lost to history.

The first records of Caucasian exploration begin with Lewis and Clark, specifically "... one, John Colter of the Lewis and Clark expedition, had walked alone through here in search of furs as early as 1807."

Read more about Yellowstone's history, below.

Grand Teton's geography was also well known to indigenous peoples, it being "...home to such Indian tribes as the Shoshones, the Blackfeet, and the Gros Ventres."

Again, John Colter's name appears as the first Caucasian to have documented his treks through the geography. "Colter left the expedition to join two fur trappers bound for the unexplored upper reaches of the Yellowstone River. Subsequent wanderings apparently led him to Jackson Hole [Wyoming] in 1807, where he no doubt gazed up in awe at these stupendous mountains, as impressed by their beauty as any visitor ever since."

Read more about Grand Teton's history, below.