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    Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide
    Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide
    Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide
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    Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide

    By Dave Gafney

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    This book will serve as your interpretive guide to the magnificent Grand Loop Drive traversing the heart of Yellowstone National Park. You are about to experience one of the world’s greatest wilderness preserves. For 142 miles, the Grand Loop Drive not only travels through forests, meadows and mountains, but will take you through or by the Earth’s largest concentration of geysers and geothermal features, one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles, a petrified forest, the continent’s largest high elevation lake and a canyon carved by the Yellowstone River so colorful that it left 19th century explorers and artists speechless. When you make the effort to understand the geology, plant and animal ecology and the human story behind this magnificent wilderness, it’s easy to conclude that the old adage “truth is stranger than fiction” must have been thought up with Yellowstone National Park in mind!

    Yellowstone’s Grand Loop Drive, An Interpretive Guide is like having an interpretive ranger along for the ride as you come to understand the underlying geology, plant and animal communities and geothermal features of our first national park, it can’t help but enhance your visit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Gafney
    Release dateFeb 3, 2011
    ISBN9781458024008
    Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide
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    Dave Gafney

    Dave Gafney is a photographer and an attorney who resides in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts and who has spent many years working in the fields of conservation and natural history interpretation. For more than fifteen years he served as a ranger and naturalist with the National Park Service where he presented interpretive programs in such treasured and diverse locations as Yellowstone, Zion, Isle Royale, Great Smoky Mountains, Death Valley and Everglades National Parks. He has served as a wilderness ranger with the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado and Wyoming and has hiked more than half of the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails. Dave holds a law degree from Northeastern University, a master's degree in forest ecology from Utah State University and a B.S. degree in environmental conservation from the University of Massachusetts. His wilderness images have been published in books, magazines and exhibited in galleries.

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      Book preview

      Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide - Dave Gafney

      YELLOWSTONE

      Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide

      DAVE GAFNEY

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      Smashwords Edition

      Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide

      Copyright 2024 by Dave Gafney

      Text & Photography by David Gafney © copyright 2010

      Cover Design & Interior Layout by Laura Shinn Designs

      http://laurashinn.yolasite.com

      License Notes

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, reproduction or use of this work in whole or in part in any form by electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the author. Thank you for respecting U.S. and international copyright laws and this author’s work.

      The information included within Yellowstone, Grand Loop Drive Interpretive Guide is factual and correct to the best of my knowledge. It is provided for entertainment purposes. However, due to human error, the failings of the memory, incorrect interpretation, or faulty research information, the author in no way guarantees or warrants the information included.

      Yellowstone’s Northern Range

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      Contents

      Introduction: The Grand Loop

      Mammoth Hot Springs

      Tower Junction and Tower Falls

      The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

      Yellowstone Lake

      West Thumb

      Upper Geyser Basin

      Madison Junction

      Norris Geyser Basin

      About the Author

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      Introduction – The Grand Loop

      This eBook will serve as your interpretive guide to the magnificent Grand Loop Drive traversing the heart of Yellowstone National Park. You are about to experience one of the world’s greatest wilderness preserves. For 142 miles, the Grand Loop Drive not only travels through forests, meadows and mountains, but will take you through or by the Earth's largest concentration of geysers and geothermal features, one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles, a petrified forest, the continent's largest high elevation lake and a canyon carved by the Yellowstone River so colorful that it left 19th century explorers and artists speechless. When you make the effort to understand the geology, plant and animal ecology and the human story behind this magnificent wilderness, it's easy to conclude that the old adage truth is stranger than fiction must have been thought up with Yellowstone National Park in mind!

      USING THIS GUIDEBOOK

      We will start our tour in front of Albright Visitor Center at Mammoth Hot Springs. The bracketed numbers on the left represent mileage for those traveling in a clockwise direction (toward Tower Junction), while those on the right are for those traveling in a counterclockwise direction (toward Norris Geyser Basin) around the Grand Loop Drive.

      If you are starting your trip around the Grand Loop Drive at Tower Junction, Grand Canyon Village, Yellowstone Lake (Fishing Bridge), West Thumb Junction, Upper Geyser Basin (Old Faithful) or Madison Junction, click on the appropriate link in the table of CONTENTS.

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      The hot springs at Mammoth

      Mammoth Hot

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