My name is Nicole Fischer, I am a third year psychology student at the University of Colorado at Denver. I have chosen to blog about Yellowstone National Park. There are three reasons why I have chosen to blog about this area.
The first is I have taken many family vacation's to the Grand Teton National Park, which neighbors Yellowstone. I having spent so much time at this national park I know a lot of information about it, but I hardly know anything about Yellowstone. It seems only fitting that I learn about Yellowstone as well.
The second reason why I chose to blog about Yellowstone is the hydrothermal activity the park is known for. This activity is a type of underground volcano. Volcanoes are typically viewed as places that ooze lava and are unable to support life, this is in stark contrast to Yellowstone, which is abundant in different forms of life. These life forms are not just limited to extremophiles; highly adapted species that have developed to live in one particular extreme environment, Yellowstone has species that often live in less extreme environments such as wolves, bison, and grizzly bears. What is it about this area that has the largest amount geysers in the world, and yet hundreds of species of plants and animals are able to thrive here?
I hope that after this course I will be able to vist Yellowstone National Park and be able to identify, why this enviroment is the way it is, and what geographical features allows for so many species to live there.
