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My National Parks
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| shenandoah | recycled wilderness, 105-mile "Drive", CCC restored and built many facilities |
| big bend | Rio Grande River, 5000 living species, desert grasslands |
| yellowstone | nation's first national park, steaming wonderland, Old Faithful, bison |
| grand canyon | Colorado River, John Wesley Powell, view of a billion years |
| redwood | world's tallest trees, 370 feet tall and 70 feet around |
| olympic | temperate rainforests, 20 square miles of glaciers, longest undeveloped coastline in the US |
| petrified forest | painted desert, 225 mya subtropical swamps, trees absorbed silica |
| mount rainier | Cascades tallest peak, erupted 2000 years ago, two days to reach the summit |
| great smoky mountains | more native trees than all of Europe, fiddle and dulcimer playing, logging devestation |
| everglades | ballet of birds, six-inch deep river, ebb and flow of water |
| north cascades | American Alps, over 300 glaciers, Pacific Crest Trail |
| glacier | American/Canadian Peace Park, grizzlies, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Continental Divide |
| carlsbad caverns | calcium carbonate, guano mining, 1000 years to form an inch |
| acadia | Mt Desert Island, Rockefellers, carriage roads, first sunlight to hit the US |
| grand tetons | mountains without foothills, Snake River rafting, "Three Breasts" |
| crater lake | volcano self-destructed, blue water, 1,932 feet deep |
| biscayne | 95% underwater, mangrove forests, 30 miles from Miami |