Yellowstone National Park

However , as human visitors increases the management of Yellowstone Park was faced with the problem of preserving the natural geologic features in the Park as humans intentionally or unintentionally assaulted them To address the problem President Woodrow Wilson signed into existence a new government agency , the National Park Service , which was assigned to a task of wildlife and natural preservation (Haines 64

b . After it was founded the Yellowstone Park had undergone two major expansion . In 1929 the east boundary and northwest corner of the Park were extended and in 1932 a

winter wildlife grazing area near the North Entrance was added to the Park boundaries (Haines 373

c ) From 1932 to the 1970s , environmental advocates had proposed that the Yellowstone Park be regarded as an ecological treasure which needed to be preserved and protected for future generations . Due to many abuses and changes steps were taken to restore the ecological balance of the park , and while they were at it the Yellowstone management were faced with the dilemma of enforcing laws that would preserve the park while at the same time do not discourage the influx of human visitation (Haines 376

d .The year 1988 was one of the worst years of Yellowstone for at that time the park was on fire . It was a natural-ignited fire following a long-term drought that was only momentarily punctuated by months of heavy rain . The fire had practically burn some 1 .4 million acres in the Yellowstone threatening the balance of its ecosystem . The historic Old faithful Inn was also burned down . Efforts were made to stop the fire between June to October costing the government millions of dollars yet only the early winter snows succeeded in extinguishing the flames (Jeffery 255-273

Just recently , September 2007 , Grizzly Bear attacks had occurred on...