Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Essays

  • San Luis Valley Essay

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    we get the creator legend of Bigfoot, Talulukang is the serpent who holds the world together and the forty-foot raptor, which lives on the east side of the valley is the thunderbird. Snippy the horse was the first official mutilation near the Great Sand Dunes. A UFO watchtower was constructed in the valley because of the numerous sightings of flying machines and unexplained lights. Bigfoot Angel

  • Park Ranger Service

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    Park Ranger Service is run by the National Park Service, which is run under the U.S. Department of Natural Resources. There are over 160 natural and recreational areas across the country run by the National Park Service (Careers). Park Rangers supervise, manage and perform work in the conservation and use of resources in national parks and other federally-managed areas. Park Rangers carry out various tasks associated with forest or structural fire control; protection of property; gathering and dissemination

  • Exploring the Geological Wonders of Colorado

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    Middle Rocky Mountains, the Wyoming Basin, the Colorado Plateau, the Southern Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains (“Physiographic,” 2013). Inside these provinces are millions of years worth of geological time that tell a story of volcanic eruptions, uplift and erosion, deposition, and metamorphism. The Middle Rocky Mountains are home to the Dinosaur National Monument. In Dinosaur National Monument you

  • Fox Island

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    Fox Island is a 605-acre park that is in southwest Allen County. The park’s address is 7324 Yohne Road. Fox Island is twelve minutes from the Fort Wayne International Airport, eight minutes from Lutheran Hospital and nineteen minutes from downtown Fort Wayne. The park’s neighbors include Interstate 69, National Serv-All’s landfill and Eagle Marsh Preserve. Fox Island is a park within a park that has 270 acres dedicated as a State Nature Preserve. This area protects unique plants, animals and

  • Why Is Lake Mungo Important

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    don't conserve it, it will be a great loss to the indigenous owners of this land. Lake Mungo faces many dangers. Fires, droughts, and other natural disasters could destroy Lake Mungo. Animals, like rabbits and goats wreck its unique landforms. Greedy businessmen are another danger, they could try to turn the land into a resort or something crazy just to make millions of dollars. This is why it is so crucial not to let anything happen to this amazing lake. We MUST preserve it. Some ways we could work

  • Camargue

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    municipalities. Size: 86 300 ha. Nature & Landscape Woodlands They are a minute part of Camargue but they play a major role in the overall balance of nature. Some are along the Rhone, others are on former sand dunes south of Vaccarès (like the Rièges woods in the national wildlife preserve). The forest hosts many mammals (rodents, foxes, and boars) and insects eaten by nesting birds (little egrets and night herons). The sansouires The low-lying salt plains, which dry out and crack in summer

  • How Photography Affects Society

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    framing of the world around us. Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist who was born in San Francisco, California (Turnage 1). He was the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman and Olive Bray. He grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. Adams was an only childe and was born when his mother was nearly forty years old. When he was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. For the next dozen years the piano was his primary occupation and, by 1920

  • Structure of the Travel and Tourism Industry

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    Structure of the Travel and Tourism Industry There are many types of attractions in the UK. Many types for many different people; things like theme parks for youngsters and families, places of great heritage for people interested in history and old time Britain. Basically whoever you are and what ever you like doing there is something in England of great interest for everyone no matter where it is or how far it is to get to; people visit these places year in year out because they're enjoyable places

  • TOURISM'S THREE MAIN IMPACT AREAS

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    TOURISM'S THREE MAIN IMPACT AREAS ================================= * Three main impact areas: natural resources, pollution, physical impacts * Environmental impacts at the global level * Other industry impacts on tourism * How tourism can contribute to environmental conservation Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism

  • Peru Tourism Essay

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    a type of tourism which includes volunteering for some particular charitable cause. In Peru it is used for the conservation of animals, education, medical, and empowerment. • Ecotourism – most of the land which is protected in Peru is in the national parks. The best example of this can be the Peruvian Amazon known to be virgin and untouched rainforests and there is no other rainforest in this world that is as good and untouched when compared to Peruvian Amazon. This makes Peru heaven for nature

  • Ecotourism

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    not to alter the integrity of the ecosystem; producing economic opportunities that make the conservation of the natural resources beneficial to the local people (Ross, 1999). A second definition by The World Conservation Union’s Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas, defines ecotourism as an environmentally responsible travel and visitation to relatively undisturbed natural areas, in order to enjoy and appreciate nature that promotes conservation, has low visitor impact, and provides for