Adiev’s Map of Location Bryce Canyon Adiev’s Map of Location By: Adiev

Map of location

Where is Bryce Canyon Located? Country: America/U.S.A. State and city: Salt Lake City ,Utah Latitude: N 37° 38' 24" Longitude: W 112° 10' 12"

Topographic Map of Bryce Canyon

Where is Bryce Canyon on the country map? Bryce canyons are here!!! Latitude: N 37° 38' 24" Longitude: W 112° 10' 12"

Important landforms and features of Bryce Canyon The Bryce Canyon is surrounded partly by the Dixie National Forest and small portion of the Table Cliff Plateau and even the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Nowhere else in the world can someone find a concentration of this rock in the odd shape it is In here at the Bryce Canyon. The Virgin River cuts down through the sandstone forming the deep canyon that is in place. The Colorado River also does this job. These are both landforms. The destructive forces of water created this deep canyon.

Dixie National Forest Table Cliff Plateau Paunsaugun Plateau

What year did Bryce Canyon become an official national park and why?

Why did Bryce Canyon become an official national park? Some people became worried by the damage going on by unknown people especially tourists and loggers and how it was affecting the Bryce Canyon. A movement to have the area protected was then started. The National Park Service director Stephen Mather thought that the Bryce Canyon should be made into a state park. He sent his recommendation to President Warren G. Harding, who on June 8, 1923 declared Bryce Canyon a national monument. A road was built the same year on the plateau to provide easy access to the Bryce Canyon. From 1924 to 1925, Bryce Canyon Lodge was built from local timber and stone. Members of the United States Congress started work in 1924 on upgrading Bryce Canyon's protection status from a U.S. National Monument to a National Park in order to establish Utah Bryce canyon as a National Park. The Utah Parks Company transferred ownership of private and state held land in the monument to the federal government starting in 1923. The last of the land in the park's borders was sold to the federal government four years later, and on February 25, 1928, the Bryce Canyon National Park was established.

Background information and what year it became a National Park The Bryce Canyon is a national park in Utah in the south west part of the state. It was actually named after the Mormon Pioneer Ebenezer Bryce. The Bryce canyon National Park became a national park in 1928. Some artifacts several thousand years old have been found south of the park.

Environmental issues affecting Bryce Canyon

Environmental issues affecting Bryce Canyon Invasive species and trampling and grazing by livestock are some of the most significant threats to the Canyon’s surrounding areas. Also, in 2010, as part of a special project with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) sampled three bodies of water at Bryce Canyon National Park for contaminants. The samples were analyzed at a lab for evidence of pesticides and wastewater, including manufacturing byproducts and agricultural and human waste contaminants. They found a lot of environmental contamination in the area, especially in Sheep and Yellow Creeks. Changes in the climate are also affecting the species in the Canyon.

Environmental issues affecting Bryce Canyon Also, air pollution can sometimes cause haze in the park. This can affect how well and how far visitors can see vistas and landmarks which means they can’t see the full potential of the park.

Special landforms and features inside Bryce Canyon

Landforms and features inside Bryce Canyon The Bryce Canyon is surrounded partly by the Dixie National Forest which is full of pine trees and is the same color as the Bryce Canyon. It also has hoodoos. The Dixie National Forest occupies almost two million acres and stretches for about 170 miles across southern Utah. It divides the Great Basin and the Colorado River. The Forest is divided into four geographic areas. The Forest has many climate extremes such as precipitation ranges from 10 inches in the lower elevations to more than 40 inches per year. The Table Cliff Plateau is another plant life area that is inside/around the Bryce canyons. This area is very green with some trees and mostly flat aside from a hill or two. The Table Cliff Plateau offers a different limestone formation soils that provide a habitat for rare plant species that normally cannot be found in southern Utah.

Landforms and features inside Bryce Canyon Paunsaugunt Plateau is also surrounding or even considered inside the Bryce canyons. It Is much like the Bryce Canyon in color, it has the same orange color. Also it has some pretty steep sides and even some pine trees below. The Paunsaugunt Plateau offers some of the most beautiful views in Utah being so high up at a height range of 7,000 feet at the lowest to 9,300 feet at the highest.

Landforms and features inside Bryce Canyon Bryce Canyon is full of special landforms and features but hoodoos are most commonly found. Hoodoos are the large pillars of rock standing throughout Bryce Canyon national park. This makes hoodoos very important making it a key landform and feature in the park found in most areas of this national monument.

What rocks are inside The Bryce Canyon

Rocks inside Bryce Canyon National Park Limestone, siltstone, dolomite and mudstone make up the four different rock types in Bryce Canyon, more specifically in the rock formations called hoodoos.

Rocks inside the park-more detail The shape of the hoodoos is caused by how fast each rock type erodes. Limestone, siltstone and dolomite are very hard and form the protective caprock on most of the spires of the hoodoos. These harder rocks are eroded mostly by frost. The softest rock in the hoodoo is the mudstone. It forms the narrowest part of the pinnacles. As mudstone gets wet, it erodes easily and runs down the sides of the rock forming mud stucco. Every time it rains the layer of mud stucco is renewed.

Limestone

Siltstone

Dolomite

Mudstone

How is Technology Used To Preserve and Maintain The Park?

What is preservation? Preservation is about deciding what's important, how to protect it, and teaching appreciation for what was saved to the next generation. Archeologists, architects, curators, historians, landscape architects, and other cultural resource professionals work in America’s national parks to preserve, protect, and share the history of this land.

What technologies are used? They have an app to promote their National Park and to take care of it. Also it tells about the wildlife and environment they have at the Bryce Canyon. This means an app is one of the technologies.

Technology in the park continued: Park alerts Park alerts through social media can help promote the park and keep people interested and informed to make sure the park stays maintained. For example, if there is a new park rule that no glass bottles are aloud at the park to keep the grounds clean and safe they can let people know through these alerts. Social Media

How Bryce Canyon Park Was Formed

How Bryce Canyon Park Was Formed Water, ice and gravity are the forces at work in Bryce Canyon National Park. These three forces along with the erosion of the Claron Formation produces a different geography than any other place in the world. About 10 to 15 million years ago the Paunsaugunt Plateau was caught and lifted by the Colorado Plateau. Then breaks, called joints, formed in the plateau during the uplift. These spaces or joints allowed water to flow into the rock and, as water flowed through, erosion widened them into rivulets and gullies. Over time, deep slot canyons formed in the sides of the plateau and this is also how Bryce Canyon was formed.

How Bryce Canyon Park Was Formed Formational Process: This park continues to form by two weathering processes that constantly work together in eroding the edges of the Bryce Canyon. The major weathering force at Bryce Canyon is frost wedging. At the Bryce Canyon they experience over 200 freeze cycles each year. In the winter, melting snow in the form of water seeps into the cracks and freezes at night. When water freezes it expands by almost 10 percent, bit by bit prying open cracks, making them ever wider in the same way a pothole forms in a paved road, forming hoodoos. Sixty million years ago, a very large lake called, lake Flagstaff covered southwestern Utah. As times passed, sediments of gravel, sand, and mud covered to thicknesses of 2,000 feet or more beneath the sea. After time, it cemented together with minerals and pressure, the sediments turned into solid rock, which is now called the Wasatch Formation.

How is the Land Inside Bryce Canyon National Park Is Currently Changing?

Changes in the land in Bryce Canyon For millions of years and still today water has carved Bryce Canyon's landscape. Water splits rocks as it freezes and expands in the cracks. This process happens over and over again almost 200 times a year. In summer, runoff water from cloudbursts seeps into the softer limestones and slices through making deep tunnels. In about 50 years the present rim will be cut back another foot because of this process. The Paria River and its streams flowed through the area sculpting and eroding the walls creating more hoodoos. As there are more erosions in the land, hoodoos are constantly made because of this and the process explained above.

Changes in the land in Bryce Canyon The environmental issues are also causing changes in the land. Invasive species and trampling and grazing by livestock are some of the biggest threats to the Canyon’s surrounding areas. Also, in 2010, as part of a special project with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) sampled three bodies of water at Bryce Canyon National Park for contaminants. The samples were analyzed at a lab for evidence of pesticides and wastewater, including manufacturing byproducts and agricultural and human waste contaminants. They found a lot of environmental contamination in the area, especially in Sheep and Yellow Creeks. This is affecting a lot of the living things on the land there. Changes in the climate are also affecting the species in the Canyon

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