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Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The main feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of great natural amphitheater along the eastern coast of Paunsaugunt board. Bryce stands out due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and erosion of stream of the river and lacustrine sedimentary rocks. The red, orange and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce is at a much higher than nearby Zion National Park altitude. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2400-2700 m). Bryce Canyon was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area designated in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon National Monument was created in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.99 km ²; 145.02 km2) and receives relatively few visitors compared to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, largely due to its remoteness. Geography and KlimaBryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) north and 1,000 feet (300 m) above Zion National Park. Weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, and the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches (38-46 cm) at temperatures Jahr.Jährlich vary from an average minimum of 9 ° F (-13 ° C) in January to an average maximum 83 ° F (28 ° C) in July, but extreme temperatures from -30 ° F to 97 ° F (-34 ° C to 36 ° C). The record high temperature in the park was 98 ° F (37 ° C), July 14, 2002. The record low temperature was -28 ° F (-33 ° C), 10 December 1972.Der National Park is located in the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the plateau West Paunsagunt Paunsagunt default (Paunsagunt is Paiute for “home of the beaver”). [9] Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and the view of the shelf edge of the valley of the fault and the river Paria behind (Paria is Paiute for “muddy or elk water”). The edge of the limited on the opposite side of the valley Kaiparowits plateau. PointBryce Bryce Canyon was formed not by erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead retrogression has great features like an amphitheater in the age of the Cenozoic rocks dug Paunsagunt tray. This erosion exposed delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that (61 m) to 200 feet high. A series of amphitheater extends over 20 miles (32 km) from north to south in the park. The largest is Bryce Amphitheater, 12 miles (19 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 800 feet (240 m) deep. An example amphitheater near hoodoos in the same formation, but at a higher level, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, 25 miles (40 km) west of the plateau Markagunt ist.Rainbow Point, the highest point of park 9,105 feet (2,775 m), is located at the end of the 18-mile (29 km) parkway. From here you can Aquarius Plateau, Bryce Amphitheater, to see Henry Mountains, the Vermilion Cliffs and the White Cliffs. Yellow Creek, where it is outside the park in the north-east section, the lower part of the park at 6,620 feet (2,020 m). [Edit] History of Man [edit] habitationLittle of Indian is on the beginning of human habitation in the area known Bryce Canyon. Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Plateau Paunsaugunt show that people in the region for at least 10,000 years. Basketmaker Anasazi artifacts thousands of years old have been found south of the park. Other artifacts from the Pueblo-period Anasazi and the Fremont Culture (until the mid-12th century) were also gefunden.Die Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus of the region at the same time as other crops are gone. These hunting and gathering Indians for most of their food, but also supplemented their diet with produce grown. The Paiute in the area developed a mythology surrounding the hoodoos (pinnacles) in Bryce Canyon. They believed that the legend HOODOOS people whose trickster Coyote were turned to stone. At least one older Paiute said his culture called the hoodoos Anka-ku-was-a-jokes for the Paiute ist.European American Exploration and settlementIt Only in the late 18th and early “red painted faces” of the 19th Century that the first European Americans, the remote and hard to reach the search area. Mormon scouts visited the area in the 1850s, its potential for agricultural development, to measure the use of pasture and settlement. Ebenezer Bryce and his family lived in Bryce Canyon, in this cabin, here photographed c. 1881.The first major scientific expedition to the area was conducted by the U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872. Powell, with a team of cartographers, geologists, surveyed the Sevier and Virgin River as part of a larger survey of the Colorado Plateau. Retains much of its Ortsnamen.Kleine group Paiute Mormon pioneers cartographers followed and tried east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River to settle. In 1873, the Cattle Company Kanarra began to enter the field for cattle grazing verwenden.Die the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his wife Mary to settle land in the Paria Valley because they thought his carpentry skills would be useful in the field. The Bryce family chose to live just below Bryce Canyon Amphitheater. Bryce grazed his cattle in what is now the border of the park, and I thought that the theater was supposed to be a “place fucking lose a cow.” He also built a road on the shelf for wood and wood, and a canal to irrigate his crops and water their animals. Other settlers were not slow the unusual place “Bryce Canyon”, which was later formalized in Bryce Canyon nennen.Eine combination of drought , overgrazing and flooding eventually led Paiute rest of the region and encouraged the settlers to build a water-diversion canal of the Sevier River drainage try. When these efforts failed, leaving most of the settlers, including the Bryce family The Gebiet.Bryce his family moved to Arizona in 1880. The remaining settlers dug 10 miles (16 km) of the range is the Sevier dig into Tropic of Tal.Creation ParksBryce Canyon Lodge was built from 1924 to 1925 the scenic local materials.These for the first time to the public in magazine articles of Union Pacific and Santa Fe Railway published in 1916, describes. People Forest Supervisor JW Humphrey promoted the natural beauty of Bryce Canyon amphitheater and 1918 items distributed at national level have also helped generate interest. However, poor access to the remote area and the lack of housing for access to Minimum.Rubin Syrett, Harold Bowman and the Perry brothers later built modest home and looked “touring services” in the region. Syrett later served as the first postmaster of Bryce Canyon. Visitation has steadily increased, and in the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad was in the modernization of the railway in the south-west from Utah to accommodate more tourists interessiert.In 1928, the canyon became a park National. He now center.At these visitors even environmentalists time was alarmed by the damage overgrazing and logging on the plateau, with unregulated visits were on the fragile features of Bryce Canyon. For movement, the area has been protected and soon began National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park. However, the Governor of Utah and Utah lobbied lawmakers for national protection of the region. Mather soften and sent its recommendation to President Warren G. Harding, who, June 8, 1923 declared Bryce Canyon National Monument in Existenz.Eine street was built to provide easy access to views of the amphitheater of the same year on the board. From 1924 to 1925 Bryce Canyon Lodge from local wood and stone gebaut.Mitglieder the U.S. Congress in 1924, his work on improving the status of U.S. national monument protection for Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah etablieren.Ein National Park process, the Utah Parks Company led to the transfer of ownership of private lands owned by the state in the monument the federal government began in 1923. The last of the land within the proposed park was sold to the federal government four years later, and 25 February 1928, it was renamed Bryce Canyon National Park gegründet.Im 1931 President Herbert Hoover annexed an adjoining area south of the park and in 1942 we added a 635-acre (2.57 km2). [11] This brought the total area of the park on the current figure of 35,835 acres (145.02 km2). Rim Road, the scenic route that is still used today, was completed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Management of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce first superintendent job aufgenommen.Neuere HistoryThe USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as supply and ship repair in the U.S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30 1981.Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) was founded in 1961. It is implemented with the library at the reception center of the park and is a non-profit organization to support the activities of interpretation, education and science of the National Park Service in Bryce Canyon National Park. A portion of the proceeds of all sales of the library to the public land units gespendet.Angesichts better visitation and traffic congestion led the National Park Service, volunteer, in the summer, the shuttle system for the park June 2000. In 2004, reconstruction began on the aging and inadequate road network in Parks.Geologie Bryce Canyon erosion of sedimentary rocks is natural erstellt.Thors Hammer.The region Bryce Canyon arches shows a drop folder, and from the end of the first half of the Cretaceous Cenozoic spans. The ancient depositional environment of the area around what is now the park varied. Dakota Sandstone and the Tropic Shale were advanced in the warm shallow Seaway withdrawal and Cretaceous waters (outcrops of these rocks are located just outside the park boundaries) is tabled. The colorful Claron formation, from which the park delicate hoodoos are carved, could be about 40 million years determined (from Paleocene to Eocene epochs) of sediment in a system of fresh flows and lakes existed between 63. Various species have been sediment was like lakes and shallow and deepens the coast and deltas migrated gelegt.Mehrere other formations were also created but also eroded by two major periods of uplift. The Laramide orogeny affected the entire western part of what would become North America about 70 million to 50 million years. This event helped to build the Rocky Mountains and in the process of closing the Cretaceous Seaway. Straight cliffs, Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations were victims of the uprising. The Colorado Plateau was segmented ago 16 million years and were collected in various trays, each separated from its neighbors by faults and each having its own uplift rate. The boat Mesa conglomerate and the Sevier River Formation were eroded by the dynamic seals were entfernt.Vertikale of this boom, which was eventually (and still are) preferentially eroded created. The easily eroded Pink Cliffs of the Claron Formation responded by autonomous pinnacles in badlands called hoodoos, while the more resistant White Cliffs formed monoliths. Brown, pink and red colors of hematite (iron oxide, Fe2O3), yellow limonite (FeO (OH) · nH 2 O) and purple are pyrolusite (MnO2). Were also created arches, natural bridges, walls and windows. Hoodoos are composed of soft sedimentary rock and are more difficult across a room, the less easily eroded stone that protects the column crowned elements. Bryce Canyon is one of the highest concentrations of hoodoos of any place on the Erde.Die training in the area of the park are exposed part of the grand staircase. The oldest members of this supersequence of rock units in the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park in those intermediate risk, and younger parts exposed in Bryce Canyon. A small amount of overlap on each account Park.BiologieMule deer are the most common large animals in the park.More 400 native plant species live in the park. There are three life zones in the park based on sea level: the lower areas of the park are the dwarf stone pine forests and juniper with manzanita, serviceberry, and antelope bitterbrush dominates between. Aspen, poplar, birch and willow grow along the water streams. Ponderosa pine forests cover the mid-elevations with Blue Spruce and Douglas fir in water-rich areas and manzanita and bitterbrush as underbrush. And Douglas fir, with Aspen and Engelmann spruce forests make the Paunsaugunt board. The most difficult areas have Limber Pine and ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, some more than 1,600 years, is on. Bryce Canyon has extensive forests and meadows of Bryce Canyon provide the habitat to support diverse animal life forests.The trees, birds and small mammals to foxes and occasional bobcats, cougars and black bears. Mule deer are the most common large mammals in the park. Elk and pronghorn that were nearby, sometimes venture reintroduced into the Park.Bryce Canyon National Park is part of the habitat of the three species that are listed under the Species Act endangered: the Utah prairie dog the California condor and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. The Utah prairie dog is an endangered species that has been introduced into the park for the preservation of new, and the largest protected area within the boundaries of the park gefunden.Über 170 species of birds people visit the park each year, including including swifts and swallows. Most species migrate to warmer climates in the winter, although jays, ravens, nuthatches, eagles and owls stay. In winter, mules, mountain lions, coyotes and groundhogs migrieren.Erdhörnchen at low altitude and it is winter in Winterschlaf.Elf species of reptiles and four species of amphibians were found on the park. Reptiles are the Great Basin rattlesnake, horned lizard, side-blotched lizard, Whipsnake stripes, and the Tigers Salamander.Auch in the park are black, lumpy, slow-growing colonies of cryptobiotic soil, which is a mixture of lichens, algae, fungi and cyanobacteria. Together, these organisms slow erosion, add nitrogen to the soil and help to moisture speichern.Während those who reduced the amount of habitat available to wildlife in most parts of the United States limit the relative scarcity of water in the human development in southern Utah and helps account for the greatly improved diversity Tierwelt.AktivitätenEs region are marked trails for hiking, for which snowshoes in the path erforderlich . Navajo winter. Trees are Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa.Most park visitors visit the scenic route, which gives access to 13 views on the amphitheater. Bryce Canyon has eight marked trails and maintained that, in less than a day (round trip time, path) can be divided: Mossy Cave (one hour, State Route 12 northwest of Tropic), Rim Trail (5-6 hours throughout RIM), Bristlecone Loop (one hour Rainbow Point), and Queens Garden (1-2 hours, Sunrise Point) are easy to moderate hikes. Navajo Loop (1-2 hours, Sunset Point) and Tower Bridge (2-3 hours, north of Sunrise Point) are moderate increases. Fairyland Loop (4-5 hours, Fairyland Point) and the loop Cuckoo (3-4 hours, Bryce Point) are strenuous hikes. Some of these paths cross, so that hikers routes for hiking harder kombinieren.Der park also has two trails designated for hiking during the night: 9 miles (14 km) Riggs Spring Loop Trail and the 23 – mile (37 km) Under-the-Rim Trail. Both require a backcountry camping permit. There are 50 miles (80 km) of hiking trails in the park. Riding in the park is from April to October.More 10 miles marked (16 miles) from, but not well maintained cross-country skiing trails are available off of Fairyland, Paria, and RIM trails of the park. Twenty miles (32 km) of trails are connected near Dixie National Forest and Ruby Inn.Die air in the area is clear that most days Yovimpa arc and sky points, Navajo Mountain and the Kaibab Plateau (90 miles 140 miles) can be seen in Arizona. Extremely clear days, the Black Mesas east and west of the Arizona-New Mexico werden.Der saw about 160 miles (260 km) away park also has a 7.4 magnitude night sky, making it one of the darkest in North America. So, astronomers see 7,500 stars with the naked eye, while in most places fewer than 2,000 to see because of light pollution (can be seen in many large cities only a few dozen). Park Rangers Events on observation of public star hospitality and evening programs on astronomy, nocturnal animals, and night sky protection. The Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival, usually held in June, attracts thousands of visitors. In honor of the festival of astronomy, asteroid 49272 was named after benannt.Es national parks are two campgrounds in the park, campground North and Sunset Campground. A loop in the north campground is open all year. Additional loops and Sunset Campground are open from late spring until early autumn. The 114-room Bryce Canyon Lodge is another way to spend the night in Parks.Eine favorite activity most visitors is landscape photography. With a tall Bryce Canyon and clean air, sunrise and sunset photographs can be spectacular.
petrified wood, Bryce Canyon National Park Utah Southwest
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Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The main feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of great natural amphitheater along the eastern coast of Paunsaugunt board. Bryce stands out due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and erosion of stream of the river and lacustrine sedimentary rocks. The red, orange and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce is at a much higher than nearby Zion National Park altitude. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2400-2700 m). Bryce Canyon was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area designated in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon National Monument was created in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.99 km ²; 145.02 km2) and receives relatively few visitors compared to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, largely due to its remoteness. Geography and KlimaBryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) north and 1,000 feet (300 m) above Zion National Park. Weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, and the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches (38-46 cm) at temperatures Jahr.Jährlich vary from an average minimum of 9 ° F (-13 ° C) in January to an average maximum 83 ° F (28 ° C) in July, but extreme temperatures from -30 ° F to 97 ° F (-34 ° C to 36 ° C). The record high temperature in the park was 98 ° F (37 ° C), July 14, 2002. The record low temperature was -28 ° F (-33 ° C), 10 December 1972.Der National Park is located in the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the plateau West Paunsagunt Paunsagunt default (Paunsagunt is Paiute for “home of the beaver”). [9] Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and the view of the shelf edge of the valley of the fault and the river Paria behind (Paria is Paiute for “muddy or elk water”). The edge of the limited on the opposite side of the valley Kaiparowits plateau. PointBryce Bryce Canyon was formed not by erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead retrogression has great features like an amphitheater in the age of the Cenozoic rocks dug Paunsagunt tray. This erosion exposed delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that (61 m) to 200 feet high. A series of amphitheater extends over 20 miles (32 km) from north to south in the park. The largest is Bryce Amphitheater, 12 miles (19 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 800 feet (240 m) deep. An example amphitheater near hoodoos in the same formation, but at a higher level, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, 25 miles (40 km) west of the plateau Markagunt ist.Rainbow Point, the highest point of park 9,105 feet (2,775 m), is located at the end of the 18-mile (29 km) parkway. From here you can Aquarius Plateau, Bryce Amphitheater, to see Henry Mountains, the Vermilion Cliffs and the White Cliffs. Yellow Creek, where it is outside the park in the north-east section, the lower part of the park at 6,620 feet (2,020 m). [Edit] History of Man [edit] habitationLittle of Indian is on the beginning of human habitation in the area known Bryce Canyon. Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Plateau Paunsaugunt show that people in the region for at least 10,000 years. Basketmaker Anasazi artifacts thousands of years old have been found south of the park. Other artifacts from the Pueblo-period Anasazi and the Fremont Culture (until the mid-12th century) were also gefunden.Die Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus of the region at the same time as other crops are gone. These hunting and gathering Indians for most of their food, but also supplemented their diet with produce grown. The Paiute in the area developed a mythology surrounding the hoodoos (pinnacles) in Bryce Canyon. They believed that the legend HOODOOS people whose trickster Coyote were turned to stone. At least one older Paiute said his culture called the hoodoos Anka-ku-was-a-jokes for the Paiute ist.European American Exploration and settlementIt Only in the late 18th and early “red painted faces” of the 19th Century that the first European Americans, the remote and hard to reach the search area. Mormon scouts visited the area in the 1850s, its potential for agricultural development, to measure the use of pasture and settlement. Ebenezer Bryce and his family lived in Bryce Canyon, in this cabin, here photographed c. 1881.The first major scientific expedition to the area was conducted by the U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872. Powell, with a team of cartographers, geologists, surveyed the Sevier and Virgin River as part of a larger survey of the Colorado Plateau. Retains much of its Ortsnamen.Kleine group Paiute Mormon pioneers cartographers followed and tried east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River to settle. In 1873, the Cattle Company Kanarra began to enter the field for cattle grazing verwenden.Die the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his wife Mary to settle land in the Paria Valley because they thought his carpentry skills would be useful in the field. The Bryce family chose to live just below Bryce Canyon Amphitheater. Bryce grazed his cattle in what is now the border of the park, and I thought that the theater was supposed to be a “place fucking lose a cow.” He also built a road on the shelf for wood and wood, and a canal to irrigate his crops and water their animals. Other settlers were not slow the unusual place “Bryce Canyon”, which was later formalized in Bryce Canyon nennen.Eine combination of drought , overgrazing and flooding eventually led Paiute rest of the region and encouraged the settlers to build a water-diversion canal of the Sevier River drainage try. When these efforts failed, leaving most of the settlers, including the Bryce family The Gebiet.Bryce his family moved to Arizona in 1880. The remaining settlers dug 10 miles (16 km) of the range is the Sevier dig into Tropic of Tal.Creation ParksBryce Canyon Lodge was built from 1924 to 1925 the scenic local materials.These for the first time to the public in magazine articles of Union Pacific and Santa Fe Railway published in 1916, describes. People Forest Supervisor JW Humphrey promoted the natural beauty of Bryce Canyon amphitheater and 1918 items distributed at national level have also helped generate interest. However, poor access to the remote area and the lack of housing for access to Minimum.Rubin Syrett, Harold Bowman and the Perry brothers later built modest home and looked “touring services” in the region. Syrett later served as the first postmaster of Bryce Canyon. Visitation has steadily increased, and in the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad was in the modernization of the railway in the south-west from Utah to accommodate more tourists interessiert.In 1928, the canyon became a park National. He now center.At these visitors even environmentalists time was alarmed by the damage overgrazing and logging on the plateau, with unregulated visits were on the fragile features of Bryce Canyon. For movement, the area has been protected and soon began National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park. However, the Governor of Utah and Utah lobbied lawmakers for national protection of the region. Mather soften and sent its recommendation to President Warren G. Harding, who, June 8, 1923 declared Bryce Canyon National Monument in Existenz.Eine street was built to provide easy access to views of the amphitheater of the same year on the board. From 1924 to 1925 Bryce Canyon Lodge from local wood and stone gebaut.Mitglieder the U.S. Congress in 1924, his work on improving the status of U.S. national monument protection for Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah etablieren.Ein National Park process, the Utah Parks Company led to the transfer of ownership of private lands owned by the state in the monument the federal government began in 1923. The last of the land within the proposed park was sold to the federal government four years later, and 25 February 1928, it was renamed Bryce Canyon National Park gegründet.Im 1931 President Herbert Hoover annexed an adjoining area south of the park and in 1942 we added a 635-acre (2.57 km2). [11] This brought the total area of the park on the current figure of 35,835 acres (145.02 km2). Rim Road, the scenic route that is still used today, was completed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Management of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce first superintendent job aufgenommen.Neuere HistoryThe USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as supply and ship repair in the U.S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30 1981.Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) was founded in 1961. It is implemented with the library at the reception center of the park and is a non-profit organization to support the activities of interpretation, education and science of the National Park Service in Bryce Canyon National Park. A portion of the proceeds of all sales of the library to the public land units gespendet.Angesichts better visitation and traffic congestion led the National Park Service, volunteer, in the summer, the shuttle system for the park June 2000. In 2004, reconstruction began on the aging and inadequate road network in Parks.Geologie Bryce Canyon erosion of sedimentary rocks is natural erstellt.Thors Hammer.The region Bryce Canyon arches shows a drop folder, and from the end of the first half of the Cretaceous Cenozoic spans. The ancient depositional environment of the area around what is now the park varied. Dakota Sandstone and the Tropic Shale were advanced in the warm shallow Seaway withdrawal and Cretaceous waters (outcrops of these rocks are located just outside the park boundaries) is tabled. The colorful Claron formation, from which the park delicate hoodoos are carved, could be about 40 million years determined (from Paleocene to Eocene epochs) of sediment in a system of fresh flows and lakes existed between 63. Various species have been sediment was like lakes and shallow and deepens the coast and deltas migrated gelegt.Mehrere other formations were also created but also eroded by two major periods of uplift. The Laramide orogeny affected the entire western part of what would become North America about 70 million to 50 million years. This event helped to build the Rocky Mountains and in the process of closing the Cretaceous Seaway. Straight cliffs, Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations were victims of the uprising. The Colorado Plateau was segmented ago 16 million years and were collected in various trays, each separated from its neighbors by faults and each having its own uplift rate. The boat Mesa conglomerate and the Sevier River Formation were eroded by the dynamic seals were entfernt.Vertikale of this boom, which was eventually (and still are) preferentially eroded created. The easily eroded Pink Cliffs of the Claron Formation responded by autonomous pinnacles in badlands called hoodoos, while the more resistant White Cliffs formed monoliths. Brown, pink and red colors of hematite (iron oxide, Fe2O3), yellow limonite (FeO (OH) · nH 2 O) and purple are pyrolusite (MnO2). Were also created arches, natural bridges, walls and windows. Hoodoos are composed of soft sedimentary rock and are more difficult across a room, the less easily eroded stone that protects the column crowned elements. Bryce Canyon is one of the highest concentrations of hoodoos of any place on the Erde.Die training in the area of the park are exposed part of the grand staircase. The oldest members of this supersequence of rock units in the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park in those intermediate risk, and younger parts exposed in Bryce Canyon. A small amount of overlap on each account Park.BiologieMule deer are the most common large animals in the park.More 400 native plant species live in the park. There are three life zones in the park based on sea level: the lower areas of the park are the dwarf stone pine forests and juniper with manzanita, serviceberry, and antelope bitterbrush dominates between. Aspen, poplar, birch and willow grow along the water streams. Ponderosa pine forests cover the mid-elevations with Blue Spruce and Douglas fir in water-rich areas and manzanita and bitterbrush as underbrush. And Douglas fir, with Aspen and Engelmann spruce forests make the Paunsaugunt board. The most difficult areas have Limber Pine and ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, some more than 1,600 years, is on. Bryce Canyon has extensive forests and meadows of Bryce Canyon provide the habitat to support diverse animal life forests.The trees, birds and small mammals to foxes and occasional bobcats, cougars and black bears. Mule deer are the most common large mammals in the park. Elk and pronghorn that were nearby, sometimes venture reintroduced into the Park.Bryce Canyon National Park is part of the habitat of the three species that are listed under the Species Act endangered: the Utah prairie dog the California condor and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. The Utah prairie dog is an endangered species that has been introduced into the park for the preservation of new, and the largest protected area within the boundaries of the park gefunden.Über 170 species of birds people visit the park each year, including including swifts and swallows. Most species migrate to warmer climates in the winter, although jays, ravens, nuthatches, eagles and owls stay. In winter, mules, mountain lions, coyotes and groundhogs migrieren.Erdhörnchen at low altitude and it is winter in Winterschlaf.Elf species of reptiles and four species of amphibians were found on the park. Reptiles are the Great Basin rattlesnake, horned lizard, side-blotched lizard, Whipsnake stripes, and the Tigers Salamander.Auch in the park are black, lumpy, slow-growing colonies of cryptobiotic soil, which is a mixture of lichens, algae, fungi and cyanobacteria. Together, these organisms slow erosion, add nitrogen to the soil and help to moisture speichern.Während those who reduced the amount of habitat available to wildlife in most parts of the United States limit the relative scarcity of water in the human development in southern Utah and helps account for the greatly improved diversity Tierwelt.AktivitätenEs region are marked trails for hiking, for which snowshoes in the path erforderlich . Navajo winter. Trees are Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa.Most park visitors visit the scenic route, which gives access to 13 views on the amphitheater. Bryce Canyon has eight marked trails and maintained that, in less than a day (round trip time, path) can be divided: Mossy Cave (one hour, State Route 12 northwest of Tropic), Rim Trail (5-6 hours throughout RIM), Bristlecone Loop (one hour Rainbow Point), and Queens Garden (1-2 hours, Sunrise Point) are easy to moderate hikes. Navajo Loop (1-2 hours, Sunset Point) and Tower Bridge (2-3 hours, north of Sunrise Point) are moderate increases. Fairyland Loop (4-5 hours, Fairyland Point) and the loop Cuckoo (3-4 hours, Bryce Point) are strenuous hikes. Some of these paths cross, so that hikers routes for hiking harder kombinieren.Der park also has two trails designated for hiking during the night: 9 miles (14 km) Riggs Spring Loop Trail and the 23 – mile (37 km) Under-the-Rim Trail. Both require a backcountry camping permit. There are 50 miles (80 km) of hiking trails in the park. Riding in the park is from April to October.More 10 miles marked (16 miles) from, but not well maintained cross-country skiing trails are available off of Fairyland, Paria, and RIM trails of the park. Twenty miles (32 km) of trails are connected near Dixie National Forest and Ruby Inn.Die air in the area is clear that most days Yovimpa arc and sky points, Navajo Mountain and the Kaibab Plateau (90 miles 140 miles) can be seen in Arizona. Extremely clear days, the Black Mesas east and west of the Arizona-New Mexico werden.Der saw about 160 miles (260 km) away park also has a 7.4 magnitude night sky, making it one of the darkest in North America. So, astronomers see 7,500 stars with the naked eye, while in most places fewer than 2,000 to see because of light pollution (can be seen in many large cities only a few dozen). Park Rangers Events on observation of public star hospitality and evening programs on astronomy, nocturnal animals, and night sky protection. The Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival, usually held in June, attracts thousands of visitors. In honor of the festival of astronomy, asteroid 49272 was named after benannt.Es national parks are two campgrounds in the park, campground North and Sunset Campground. A loop in the north campground is open all year. Additional loops and Sunset Campground are open from late spring until early autumn. The 114-room Bryce Canyon Lodge is another way to spend the night in Parks.Eine favorite activity most visitors is landscape photography. With a tall Bryce Canyon and clean air, sunrise and sunset photographs can be spectacular.
Bryce Canyon National Park Utah Southwest
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Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The main feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of great natural amphitheater along the eastern coast of Paunsaugunt board. Bryce stands out due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and erosion of stream of the river and lacustrine sedimentary rocks. The red, orange and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce is at a much higher than nearby Zion National Park altitude. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2400-2700 m). Bryce Canyon was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area designated in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon National Monument was created in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.99 km ²; 145.02 km2) and receives relatively few visitors compared to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, largely due to its remoteness. Geography and KlimaBryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) north and 1,000 feet (300 m) above Zion National Park. Weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, and the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches (38-46 cm) at temperatures Jahr.Jährlich vary from an average minimum of 9 ° F (-13 ° C) in January to an average maximum 83 ° F (28 ° C) in July, but extreme temperatures from -30 ° F to 97 ° F (-34 ° C to 36 ° C). The record high temperature in the park was 98 ° F (37 ° C), July 14, 2002. The record low temperature was -28 ° F (-33 ° C), 10 December 1972.Der National Park is located in the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the plateau West Paunsagunt Paunsagunt default (Paunsagunt is Paiute for “home of the beaver”). [9] Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and the view of the shelf edge of the valley of the fault and the river Paria behind (Paria is Paiute for “muddy or elk water”). The edge of the limited on the opposite side of the valley Kaiparowits plateau. PointBryce Bryce Canyon was formed not by erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead retrogression has great features like an amphitheater in the age of the Cenozoic rocks dug Paunsagunt tray. This erosion exposed delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that (61 m) to 200 feet high. A series of amphitheater extends over 20 miles (32 km) from north to south in the park. The largest is Bryce Amphitheater, 12 miles (19 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 800 feet (240 m) deep. An example amphitheater near hoodoos in the same formation, but at a higher level, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, 25 miles (40 km) west of the plateau Markagunt ist.Rainbow Point, the highest point of park 9,105 feet (2,775 m), is located at the end of the 18-mile (29 km) parkway. From here you can Aquarius Plateau, Bryce Amphitheater, to see Henry Mountains, the Vermilion Cliffs and the White Cliffs. Yellow Creek, where it is outside the park in the north-east section, the lower part of the park at 6,620 feet (2,020 m). [Edit] History of Man [edit] habitationLittle of Indian is on the beginning of human habitation in the area known Bryce Canyon. Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Plateau Paunsaugunt show that people in the region for at least 10,000 years. Basketmaker Anasazi artifacts thousands of years old have been found south of the park. Other artifacts from the Pueblo-period Anasazi and the Fremont Culture (until the mid-12th century) were also gefunden.Die Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus of the region at the same time as other crops are gone. These hunting and gathering Indians for most of their food, but also supplemented their diet with produce grown. The Paiute in the area developed a mythology surrounding the hoodoos (pinnacles) in Bryce Canyon. They believed that the legend HOODOOS people whose trickster Coyote were turned to stone. At least one older Paiute said his culture called the hoodoos Anka-ku-was-a-jokes for the Paiute ist.European American Exploration and settlementIt Only in the late 18th and early “red painted faces” of the 19th Century that the first European Americans, the remote and hard to reach the search area. Mormon scouts visited the area in the 1850s, its potential for agricultural development, to measure the use of pasture and settlement. Ebenezer Bryce and his family lived in Bryce Canyon, in this cabin, here photographed c. 1881.The first major scientific expedition to the area was conducted by the U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872. Powell, with a team of cartographers, geologists, surveyed the Sevier and Virgin River as part of a larger survey of the Colorado Plateau. Retains much of its Ortsnamen.Kleine group Paiute Mormon pioneers cartographers followed and tried east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River to settle. In 1873, the Cattle Company Kanarra began to enter the field for cattle grazing verwenden.Die the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his wife Mary to settle land in the Paria Valley because they thought his carpentry skills would be useful in the field. The Bryce family chose to live just below Bryce Canyon Amphitheater. Bryce grazed his cattle in what is now the border of the park, and I thought that the theater was supposed to be a “place fucking lose a cow.” He also built a road on the shelf for wood and wood, and a canal to irrigate his crops and water their animals. Other settlers were not slow the unusual place “Bryce Canyon”, which was later formalized in Bryce Canyon nennen.Eine combination of drought , overgrazing and flooding eventually led Paiute rest of the region and encouraged the settlers to build a water-diversion canal of the Sevier River drainage try. When these efforts failed, leaving most of the settlers, including the Bryce family The Gebiet.Bryce his family moved to Arizona in 1880. The remaining settlers dug 10 miles (16 km) of the range is the Sevier dig into Tropic of Tal.Creation ParksBryce Canyon Lodge was built from 1924 to 1925 the scenic local materials.These for the first time to the public in magazine articles of Union Pacific and Santa Fe Railway published in 1916, describes. People Forest Supervisor JW Humphrey promoted the natural beauty of Bryce Canyon amphitheater and 1918 items distributed at national level have also helped generate interest. However, poor access to the remote area and the lack of housing for access to Minimum.Rubin Syrett, Harold Bowman and the Perry brothers later built modest home and looked “touring services” in the region. Syrett later served as the first postmaster of Bryce Canyon. Visitation has steadily increased, and in the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad was in the modernization of the railway in the south-west from Utah to accommodate more tourists interessiert.In 1928, the canyon became a park National. He now center.At these visitors even environmentalists time was alarmed by the damage overgrazing and logging on the plateau, with unregulated visits were on the fragile features of Bryce Canyon. For movement, the area has been protected and soon began National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park. However, the Governor of Utah and Utah lobbied lawmakers for national protection of the region. Mather soften and sent its recommendation to President Warren G. Harding, who, June 8, 1923 declared Bryce Canyon National Monument in Existenz.Eine street was built to provide easy access to views of the amphitheater of the same year on the board. From 1924 to 1925 Bryce Canyon Lodge from local wood and stone gebaut.Mitglieder the U.S. Congress in 1924, his work on improving the status of U.S. national monument protection for Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah etablieren.Ein National Park process, the Utah Parks Company led to the transfer of ownership of private lands owned by the state in the monument the federal government began in 1923. The last of the land within the proposed park was sold to the federal government four years later, and 25 February 1928, it was renamed Bryce Canyon National Park gegründet.Im 1931 President Herbert Hoover annexed an adjoining area south of the park and in 1942 we added a 635-acre (2.57 km2). [11] This brought the total area of the park on the current figure of 35,835 acres (145.02 km2). Rim Road, the scenic route that is still used today, was completed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Management of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce first superintendent job aufgenommen.Neuere HistoryThe USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as supply and ship repair in the U.S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30 1981.Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) was founded in 1961. It is implemented with the library at the reception center of the park and is a non-profit organization to support the activities of interpretation, education and science of the National Park Service in Bryce Canyon National Park. A portion of the proceeds of all sales of the library to the public land units gespendet.Angesichts better visitation and traffic congestion led the National Park Service, volunteer, in the summer, the shuttle system for the park June 2000. In 2004, reconstruction began on the aging and inadequate road network in Parks.Geologie Bryce Canyon erosion of sedimentary rocks is natural erstellt.Thors Hammer.The region Bryce Canyon arches shows a drop folder, and from the end of the first half of the Cretaceous Cenozoic spans. The ancient depositional environment of the area around what is now the park varied. Dakota Sandstone and the Tropic Shale were advanced in the warm shallow Seaway withdrawal and Cretaceous waters (outcrops of these rocks are located just outside the park boundaries) is tabled. The colorful Claron formation, from which the park delicate hoodoos are carved, could be about 40 million years determined (from Paleocene to Eocene epochs) of sediment in a system of fresh flows and lakes existed between 63. Various species have been sediment was like lakes and shallow and deepens the coast and deltas migrated gelegt.Mehrere other formations were also created but also eroded by two major periods of uplift. The Laramide orogeny affected the entire western part of what would become North America about 70 million to 50 million years. This event helped to build the Rocky Mountains and in the process of closing the Cretaceous Seaway. Straight cliffs, Wahweap and Kaiparowits formations were victims of the uprising. The Colorado Plateau was segmented ago 16 million years and were collected in various trays, each separated from its neighbors by faults and each having its own uplift rate. The boat Mesa conglomerate and the Sevier River Formation were eroded by the dynamic seals were entfernt.Vertikale of this boom, which was eventually (and still are) preferentially eroded created. The easily eroded Pink Cliffs of the Claron Formation responded by autonomous pinnacles in badlands called hoodoos, while the more resistant White Cliffs formed monoliths. Brown, pink and red colors of hematite (iron oxide, Fe2O3), yellow limonite (FeO (OH) · nH 2 O) and purple are pyrolusite (MnO2). Were also created arches, natural bridges, walls and windows. Hoodoos are composed of soft sedimentary rock and are more difficult across a room, the less easily eroded stone that protects the column crowned elements. Bryce Canyon is one of the highest concentrations of hoodoos of any place on the Erde.Die training in the area of the park are exposed part of the grand staircase. The oldest members of this supersequence of rock units in the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park in those intermediate risk, and younger parts exposed in Bryce Canyon. A small amount of overlap on each account Park.BiologieMule deer are the most common large animals in the park.More 400 native plant species live in the park. There are three life zones in the park based on sea level: the lower areas of the park are the dwarf stone pine forests and juniper with manzanita, serviceberry, and antelope bitterbrush dominates between. Aspen, poplar, birch and willow grow along the water streams. Ponderosa pine forests cover the mid-elevations with Blue Spruce and Douglas fir in water-rich areas and manzanita and bitterbrush as underbrush. And Douglas fir, with Aspen and Engelmann spruce forests make the Paunsaugunt board. The most difficult areas have Limber Pine and ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, some more than 1,600 years, is on. Bryce Canyon has extensive forests and meadows of Bryce Canyon provide the habitat to support diverse animal life forests.The trees, birds and small mammals to foxes and occasional bobcats, cougars and black bears. Mule deer are the most common large mammals in the park. Elk and pronghorn that were nearby, sometimes venture reintroduced into the Park.Bryce Canyon National Park is part of the habitat of the three species that are listed under the Species Act endangered: the Utah prairie dog the California condor and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. The Utah prairie dog is an endangered species that has been introduced into the park for the preservation of new, and the largest protected area within the boundaries of the park gefunden.Über 170 species of birds people visit the park each year, including including swifts and swallows. Most species migrate to warmer climates in the winter, although jays, ravens, nuthatches, eagles and owls stay. In winter, mules, mountain lions, coyotes and groundhogs migrieren.Erdhörnchen at low altitude and it is winter in Winterschlaf.Elf species of reptiles and four species of amphibians were found on the park. Reptiles are the Great Basin rattlesnake, horned lizard, side-blotched lizard, Whipsnake stripes, and the Tigers Salamander.Auch in the park are black, lumpy, slow-growing colonies of cryptobiotic soil, which is a mixture of lichens, algae, fungi and cyanobacteria. Together, these organisms slow erosion, add nitrogen to the soil and help to moisture speichern.Während those who reduced the amount of habitat available to wildlife in most parts of the United States limit the relative scarcity of water in the human development in southern Utah and helps account for the greatly improved diversity Tierwelt.AktivitätenEs region are marked trails for hiking, for which snowshoes in the path erforderlich . Navajo winter. Trees are Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa.Most park visitors visit the scenic route, which gives access to 13 views on the amphitheater. Bryce Canyon has eight marked trails and maintained that, in less than a day (round trip time, path) can be divided: Mossy Cave (one hour, State Route 12 northwest of Tropic), Rim Trail (5-6 hours throughout RIM), Bristlecone Loop (one hour Rainbow Point), and Queens Garden (1-2 hours, Sunrise Point) are easy to moderate hikes. Navajo Loop (1-2 hours, Sunset Point) and Tower Bridge (2-3 hours, north of Sunrise Point) are moderate increases. Fairyland Loop (4-5 hours, Fairyland Point) and the loop Cuckoo (3-4 hours, Bryce Point) are strenuous hikes. Some of these paths cross, so that hikers routes for hiking harder kombinieren.Der park also has two trails designated for hiking during the night: 9 miles (14 km) Riggs Spring Loop Trail and the 23 – mile (37 km) Under-the-Rim Trail. Both require a backcountry camping permit. There are 50 miles (80 km) of hiking trails in the park. Riding in the park is from April to October.More 10 miles marked (16 miles) from, but not well maintained cross-country skiing trails are available off of Fairyland, Paria, and RIM trails of the park. Twenty miles (32 km) of trails are connected near Dixie National Forest and Ruby Inn.Die air in the area is clear that most days Yovimpa arc and sky points, Navajo Mountain and the Kaibab Plateau (90 miles 140 miles) can be seen in Arizona. Extremely clear days, the Black Mesas east and west of the Arizona-New Mexico werden.Der saw about 160 miles (260 km) away park also has a 7.4 magnitude night sky, making it one of the darkest in North America. So, astronomers see 7,500 stars with the naked eye, while in most places fewer than 2,000 to see because of light pollution (can be seen in many large cities only a few dozen). Park Rangers Events on observation of public star hospitality and evening programs on astronomy, nocturnal animals, and night sky protection. The Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival, usually held in June, attracts thousands of visitors. In honor of the festival of astronomy, asteroid 49272 was named after benannt.Es national parks are two campgrounds in the park, campground North and Sunset Campground. A loop in the north campground is open all year. Additional loops and Sunset Campground are open from late spring until early autumn. The 114-room Bryce Canyon Lodge is another way to spend the night in Parks.Eine favorite activity most visitors is landscape photography. With a tall Bryce Canyon and clean air, sunrise and sunset photographs can be spectacular.
