Our National Parks: America's Spectacular Wilderness HeritageCombining magnificent photos and an informative, entertaining text, this volume covers the histories, the geological features, and the wildlife of America's unspoiled paradises. Over 400 full-color photos and 350 full-color illustrations capture rarely seen plants and animals in their native habitats, panoramic vistas and extraordinary natural phenomena. |
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The credits that appear on pages 351 and 352 | 59 |
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Anasazi animals Badlands beaver beneath Big Bend birds blue brown pelicans Cascades cave cliffs color Colorado Colorado Plateau cones coral crater Crater Lake creatures Creek deep deer desert eruptions feet fish flowers flows forest geysers giant giant sequoias glaciers Grand Canyon grass grasslands green ground grow Haleakala Hawaiian Ice Age Indians insects island Lake land landscape lava layers leaves limestone living meadows Mesa miles million years ago moisture moose mountain mule deer National Park nearly nest North numbers ocean Paiutes park's peaks pikas pines pinyon pines plants prairie pronghorn rain Redwall redwood reef ridges rise River rock rocky sand sandstone season seeds sequoia slopes snow snowshoe hares spring stone streams summer summit surface Teton trail trees tundra valley volcano walls wild wind winter yellow Yellowstone
References to this book
Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott Ellis Leon Yochelson Limited preview - 2001 |