Feeding Bear Yellowstone National Park #1
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Feeding Bear Yellowstone National Park #1
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NPS Photo
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Visitor feeding bear. Photographer unknown, no date. Early visitors to Yellowstone National Park developed an interest in the area's wildlife, especially the bears. Garbage dumps that attracted bears quickly became a primary tourist attraction. At the height of the bear-feeding era, hundreds of people watched nightly as bears fed on garbage behind Park hotels. By 1900, Yellowstone became well known as the place to see and interact with bears. In 1902 the park officially prohibited visitors from hand-feeding bears. In 1910 the first reported incidents of bears seeking human food along Park roads. And sadly the first confirmed bear-caused human fatality occurred in 1916. Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone, widely held to be the first national park in the world, is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features. The park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles. The Yellowstone Caldera is the largest supervolcano on the continent. Half of the world's geothermal features are in Yellowstone, fueled by this ongoing volcanism. Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone. The park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining nearly-intact ecosystem in the Earth's northern temperate zone. Hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been documented, including several that are either endangered or threatened. The vast forests and grasslands also include unique species of plants. Yellowstone Park is the largest and most famous megafauna location in the Continental United States.
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July 29th, 2014
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