Grand Teton National Park: A Visual Interpretation - Softcover

Gilmore, Jackie

9780939365449: Grand Teton National Park: A Visual Interpretation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939365448 ISBN 13: 9780939365449

Publisher: Sierra Pr, 1995

Grand Teton National Park, in northwestern Wyoming, is a land of incredible diversity and beauty. The rugged peaks of the Teton Range dominate the valley of Jackson Hole. The interplay of light and weather changes the colors and moods of the Tetons from day to day, season to season. Alpine meadows, sheer rock faces, glacier-carved canyons, and mountain streams greet the high-altitude hiker. River bottoms, lakes, meadows, and sagebrush-grasslands are found in the valley below. Mountains and water, wildflowers and trees, mammals and birds, temperate summers and frigid winters contribute to the character of this mountain landscape. This 310,000-acre national park is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, an area encompassing approximately 28,000 contiguous square miles in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. The Greater Yellowstone region is not defined by political boundaries but rather by the relationships among the topography, geology, hydrology, geothermal features, climate, plants, and wildlife that are found in this vast area. It includes Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, the National Elk Refuge, Red Rock Lakes and Gray's Lake national wildlife refuges, and seven national forests.

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