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32 unusual facts about Yellowstone National Park


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The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines run near Yellowstone National Park.

62d Airlift Wing

62 AW aircraft were also used that year to transport firefighters and supplies to Wyoming to fight major forest fires in Yellowstone National Park.

A.J. Timothy Jull

Jull earned the Kirk Bryan Award in 1997 for is contributions in geological studies of Yellowstone National Park.

Ákos Kónya

In 2001, he immigrated to the United States as part of a foreign exchange program at Yellowstone National Park.

Beppu Onsen

The volume of water discharged is second only to that of the Yellowstone National Park in the United States, the largest hot spring resort in the world.

Birger Sandzén

Sandzén painted many landscape scenes, including depictions of the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone National Park.

Brăduț

Also of volcanic origin, the Likaskő is a cone-shaped formation with a hole in the middle, which resembles some of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park - except it is empty inside.

Charles Edward Hamilton

Hamilton's son, Charles Ashworth Hamilton, was the founder of Hamilton's Stores in Yellowstone National Park.

Curvularia protuberata

The mutualism allows the grass to thrive in soil that is 65°C in Yellowstone National Park.

Douglas Thayer

Thayer’s early work experience included helper on a uranium drill rig, construction laborer, railroad section hand, janitor, restaurant dishwasher, insurance salesman, and seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park.

Harrison County, Ohio

Benjamin Cowen - Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who was principal political facilitator in establishing Yellowstone National Park and the idea that the use of national parks is for all Americans

Harry W. Frantz

In 1923 he was appointed Director of Publicity for Yellowstone National Park and gave the park’s Grand Loop Road its name.

Henry L. Dawes

In late 1871 and early 1872, Dawes became an ardent supporter of the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Khövsgöl Nuur

The Lake area is a National Park bigger than Yellowstone and strictly protected as a transition zone between Central Asian Steppe and the Siberian Taiga.

KXPI-LD

That arrangement makes the two stations sister to ABC affiliate KIFI-TV and all three share studios on North Yellowstone Highway/U.S. 26 in Idaho Falls.

Livingston Depot

It had two predecessors, an 1882 wooden facility, which burned down, and a second brick structure, which came to be inadequate for the increasing and somewhat affluent passenger traffic the NP was bringing to visit Yellowstone National Park.

Manitoba wolf

However, specimens were kept and bred in captivity and re-introduced in 1995 in the area around Yellowstone National Park.

Merriam's elk

Elk from Yellowstone National Park were introduced to this area in 1913, and are reasonably common in the area today.

Mimulus guttatus

It is found in a wide range of habitats including the splash zone of the Pacific Ocean, the geysers of Yellowstone National Park, alpine meadows, serpentine barrens, and even on the toxic tailings of copper mines.

Music in High Places

It was recorded live for the VH1 program Music in High Places and features the band performing acoustic renditions of their songs in various natural settings in Yellowstone National Park (with the exception of "Shallow," which was recorded acoustically in the studio).

Oregon Short Line Railroad

During the early part of the 20th century the railroad publicized tours of Yellowstone National Park by way of a spur constructed from Idaho Falls, Idaho to West Yellowstone, Montana.

Philetus W. Norris House

It was built in 1873 by Philetus W. Norris, who went on to become the second superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.

Red Volcano

Red Volcano reveals to Red Tornado, Red Inferno, and Red Torpedo that he plans to set off a dormant volcano in Yellowstone National Park.

Rivers Without Borders

More than twice as large as Yellowstone National Park, it is the largest unprotected and basically undeveloped watershed on the Pacific Coast of North America.

Samuel C. Pomeroy

On December 18, 1871, at the urging of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden and after learning of the findings of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, Pomeroy introduced the Act of Dedication bill into the Senate that ultimately led to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Unwritten Law

The band recorded a set of acoustic performances in various locales at Yellowstone National Park.

VentureDNA

GeoRoamer Yellowstone is a mobile — integrated GPS, and audio tour guide — application for Yellowstone National Park.

Vic Wertz

It went over 450 feet to dead center of the Polo Grounds in New York, and a sportswriter said, "It would have been a home run in any other park, including Yellowstone."

Vicinage Clause

Professor Brian C. Kalt of Michigan State University College of Law argues that the Vicinage Clause may permit the commission of the "perfect crime" in the portion of Yellowstone National Park within the state of Idaho because the entire park is within the District of Wyoming and the Idaho portion of the park has no residents (and that a less perfect crime could be committed in the lightly populated Montana portion of the park).

Further, with the exception of the District of Wyoming, which includes the portions of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho and Montana (see below), no federal judicial district includes the territory of two or more states (although the short-lived District of Potomac once did).

William W. Belknap

He inaugurated the preparation of historical reports by post commanders, and proposed actions to preserve Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone Public Radio

It renamed itself Yellowstone Public Radio in 1994, reflecting that its coverage area spanned across most of the area around Yellowstone National Park.


Alex Halone House

Alex and his son Eugene worked together from 1928 to 1935, doing stonemasonry at Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.

Ashton, Idaho

Aesthetic stone depots, rather than standard wooden ones, were built at Rexburg, Idaho and at West Yellowstone, Montana to lure and impress tourists traveling to Yellowstone National Park and to Old Faithful Inn.

Following successful construction and operation of the St. Anthony Railroad, Union Pacific, under the careful watch of the OSL and the Yellowstone Park Railroad Company, began plans for another railroad from St. Anthony to the Madison River entrance of Yellowstone National Park or to what is now known as West Yellowstone.

Eugene Kingman

Early in his career (he was in his third year at Yale), he was commissioned by Horace M. Albright to paint seven paintings of park scenes at Sequoia, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Crater Lake.

Nathaniel P. Langford

Nathaniel Pitt Langford (1832–1911) was an explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante and historian from Saint Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields, territorial government and the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Northwest College

Northwest College is a public two-year residential college located in Powell, Wyoming, 70 miles from Yellowstone National Park.

U.S. Route 212

It runs for 949 miles (1,527 km) from Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota to Yellowstone National Park.

Wyoming Highway 296

Wyoming Highway 296 also known as the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway is in the U.S. state of Wyoming and follows the route taken by Chief Joseph as he led the Nez Perce Indians out of Yellowstone National Park and into Montana in 1877 during their attempt to flee the U.S. Cavalry and escape into Canada.