Waching daily Feb 14 2017

hi welcome to one of the highest

habitats in the Everglades the hardwood

hammock we're standing on a limestone

ridge known as the Miami rockridge or

the Atlantic costal Ridge that is a

mountain for the flat landscape of south

florida the hardwood hammock is one of

the few places that stays dry year-round

a hardwood hammock is like an island of

emerald forest that pops up around the

Everglades each hammock is unique

they come in different sizes and they

have different combinations of plants

hardwood refers to a broadleaf trees

it is also called tropical because most

hammock plants in Everglades National

Park are from the tropics

so there you have it a tropical hardwood

hammock but why is a kind of yannick oh

right

hammock is an old word that means high

ground small family groups of first

colusa Indians and later seminoles and

miccosukee Indians captain the hammocks

throughout the Everglades even planted

crops in there

let's go and check it out

ok I think wall of tangled vegetation

fringes the hammock because it gets so

much Sun on the outside

lucky for us that a few hammocks are

bisected with trails the trails over

here

so what do you think now that we're

inside it's a lot cooler in here from

all the shades there's so much canopy

cover here I look at the airplanes the

hammock can be a few degrees cooler

during the hot summer look up and you

can see why mature hammocks have big

tall trees that form a closed canopy

overhead the canopies like a sunshade

that reduces the amount of sunlight

inside the hammock if you look down

you'll see the life-form floor has quite

a few solutions the brown water in the

superbowl really turns up the humidity

in here remember that impenetrable wall

on the outside I remember that wall is

like a wind deflector winds will dry

everything out including the soil so

you're saying that the hammocks have

wind protection from the edge some

protection from the canopy and high

humidity from the groundwater right and

all that adds up to a very moist and

humid hammock the greatness of spongy

here

this spongy organic soil of of the

limestone creates these big trees burns

masses for media's and orchids all

thrive in this moist environment

what creates all the solution holes

those big holes are the result of the

tropical storms and hurricanes that

happen every summer wet season in the

Everglades fierce winds can rip out tall

canopy trees who shallow roots are

entangled with the limestone rock it's

like ripping out route cables from the

ground which also takes out chunks of

limestone

natural weathering from water and

chemical religion is also slowly

dissolving away the softer limestone

this whole will have water during the

wet season creating a home for small

fish prey fish and invertebrates these

moist hammock islands are also a fire

sensitive habitat which means they do

not like fire but hammocks are embedded

in fire dependent habitats like prairies

and pilots

fire generally stops that be hammock

adjudged because of the moist shady

conditions inside fire burns hammocks

only under very rare extremely dry

conditions fire can cook the hammock

tree roots and burn that rich soil you

learn more about fire later there are so

many cool implants but the ground looks

pretty open inside the hammock good

observation the ground underneath the

understory is very sparse to lack of

sunlight

here's a gumbo limbo look underneath the

bark and what do you see that green part

has chlorophyll to carry out

photosynthesis just like a leaf

and here is delightful aroma tree-filled

smooth bark

oh yeah it's really smooth oh not a

snail I you found the Florida tree snail

right now it's tucked inside its shell

and glued to the tree this is how they

conserve moisture during the dry season

soon when the wet season comes around

the tree snails will become active and

start grazing on tiny likens that grow

on the hammock trees

that reminds me of the strangler big the

strangler fig begin life as a small

seedling going on a tree branch or crown

the seedlings roots grow downward and

envelop the whole street at the same

time the seedling grows upward to reach

the canopy layer what happens to the

whole story sometimes in this but other

times it dies leaving just a hollow

memory that's pretty cool

who lives here besides tree snails and

solution whole creators tropical

hardwood hammocks provide great cover

for animals to avoid the intense heat of

summer wicked summer storms fires and

occasional winter freezes

most of the tropical plants provide

fruits for birds to eat who also

disperse the seeds

during spring and fall migration

migrating birds stopover in the hammock

to rest and refuel during their long

journey

the hammock day shift might include

lizards snakes and butterflies like the

zebra longwing

the night shift might include barred

owls small rodents bats and even the

endangered Florida panther

this hardwood hammock at royal palm is

part of the reason that everglades

national park was formed early explorers

were attracted and awed by the unique

tropical nature and plant diversity of

the hardwood hammock

they rallied to great royal palm state

park in 1916 this early conservation

effort led up to the establishment of

Everglades National Park in 1947

wow this is a fascinating mix of plants

animals and people all coming together

well you'll see more hammock trees in

the next habitat but there will be a lot

smaller

you've got lots to learn good luck

thank you for showing me around the

hardwood hammock it was my pleasure by g

da da

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YELLOWSTONE IN DEPTH: THE BISON - Duration: 7:18.

Yellowstone's full of Wildlife

in addition to being able to see geysers

and some of the amazing geology here

people do truly come for the Wildlife

it's hard to see a bear you're pretty

fortunate to see a wolf but you're

fairly guaranteed to see a bison it

would be a rare visit to Yellowstone to

come and spend a day in the park and not

see a bison you can not only see what a

bison looks like you can watch it move

on the landscape you can listen to it

below you can see how it interacts with

other bison at Yellowstone we've

preserved the most important wild bison

population in the whole United States

partly because so few locations have

bison without fences there are huge huge

planes here in Yellowstone and Lamar

Valley is one of them that's you know

five or six miles long and a mile wide

there can be days where there's two or

three thousand animals in the valley

bottom and in a matter of 4-5 hours that

can all disappear they walk wherever

they want their no fences there's not

even a fence around the exterior of the

park to keep them in there always on the

move

just eating and walking eating and

walking the males are always with the

large hurts and there's usually an older

female that might be kind of the leader

of the herd

they are amazing in their ability to

survive and adapt to such a harsh

climate here we get a lot of snow in

Yellowstone but they have a large hump

on their back and there's bone and

muscle in that hump allows them to stick

their head they're huge head down into

the snow completely and just snow plow

the snow out of the way to get to the

grass

they begin to break up into smaller

groups will be distributed around the

hot spring basins and they use those

areas with limited amount of snow for

access to food

during the springtime as a time of

renewal and we have visitors just walk

to the park to watch the Bison during

the camping season

nearly all the females get pregnant

summer so there's a extremely high

percentage of females having calves

during april and may I was fortunate

enough to see a bison give birth to a

calf on mother's day one year it was

amazing to watch not just the birth but

to watch the CAF after the birth within

about forty minutes it was standing and

walking

compare that to a human child it takes

about a year to learn to walk

it's pretty amazing but they need to be

able to get up and run with the herd and

move around into the summer when things

are green and lush its kind of the prime

time for bison they're moving around and

eating a lot of visitors get to see vast

herds of them thousands of them were

fortunate to be able to support such a

large healthy herd I think that bison

are very emblematic of the wilderness

there was nothing but wilderness when

the Native American tribes were spread

out across north america and bison were

a dominant feature of that landscape the

animal was so important to many many

Plains tribes this particular animal

provided so much of what they needed the

meat obviously the fur in the hide

we used for clothing and blankets and TP

coverings everything was useful it was

kind of like a storehouse or department

store right in the one animal from a

time period when there were 30 million

animals on the landscape the United

States was pioneering into the western

frontier so the military strategy was to

take away the food which was the Bison

and conquer the Indian nations

they harvested bison by the hundreds of

thousands than an industry grew up

around that the bone was ground up to

make fertilizer for the farmers

occupying the Great Plains

and so to see their numbers dwindle solo

it was a direct reflection and an

intentional act to try to eradicate both

the Bison and the people so many were

killed and we believe only about 23 or

24 animals were left in Yellowstone 24

is not very many when you consider the

vast herds that were before that

as humans i think we played a role in

that certainly in there almost

extinction but also in kind of turning

that around it really is a conservation

success story that we were able to keep

them from going extinct and I think

we're lucky to be able to watch them on

the landscape today you know if we lost

wild bison on landscape we would have

lost a very stoic and emblematic symbol

of the great western states

because we were able to save them from

extinction

they're a symbol of how far we've come

as humans our own ability to share the

landscape with another species and to

see that not everything has to serve our

own purposes

there are as many places anymore where

you can have bears or wolves herds of

bison

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MY HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - Duration: 3:24.

aloha and welcome to Hawaii Volcanoes

National Park an international biosphere

reserve viruses join us on the journey

through my green pot the park

encompasses over 330,000 acres and two

active volcanoes there are active till

30 mins lava to spring forest

oh yeah and an erupting volcano all this

combines to make Hawaii Volcanoes

National Park one of the top visitor

attractions in the hall of the white

bringing two million visitors a year to

this very spot these visitors from all

over the world and like us they will be

using electricity transportation eating

and drinking and generating weights

above we come in park and help which is

Alex look at me I just work here

plastic bottles requirement for crude

oil to make and then you never recycled

filling out those or into government

leadership go

what can I fill up the park station is

outside to the reins and this thing this

your bottle can be reusable easy to

clean and also recycled 20 at this point

I could just buy my own

Ranger door to our laundry hop in

carpooling is very green

well I do need to pick up my clean

beautiful but you know short trip to

truck that this is a waste of you

this can generate about a promise here

to just 10 minutes

I know why not try those be electric

vehicle in rechargeable electric vehicle

wow this is great but when the batteries

run out where do you plug it in when we

get into the Sun the photovoltaic panels

on this route 27 328 kilowatts of energy

every day that's about thirty six

thousand dollars worth every year and

enough for the energy needs of this

building plus extra

don't streetlights is a lot of

electricity runs right that's why we

refresh our street fully cut off down

mixed use a lot less electricity and the

longer way from the light-emitting

diodes direct like exactly what are you

doing

look like I'm doing output uniforms into

the dryer

did you know the driver blew the biggest

waste of electricity in the household

listen can use up to 3.3 kilowatts of

electricity

what's the alternative I thought it

would be something like this

I knew you would that's just some of the

ways that we're helping to make Hawaii

Volcanoes National Park a green park or

green planet

how about you

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A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD - Duration: 18:12.

is your watching old faithful for the

last few minutes before interruption

we would like to tell you a bit about

this video a small group of scientists

in California's to technology arizona

state university and Yellowstone

National Park have been studying how old

faithful works in detail

we're especially interested in geysers

since they seem to work in very similar

ways to volcanoes like mount st. Helens

that we can safely work around Old

Faithful sometime ago we made

measurements of temperature and pressure

several deaths down the event of Old

Faithful we collected data starting from

the time that emptied out at the end of

interruption until it refilled and

finally erupted again from this work we

learned many details of how geysers work

but of course we still have many

questions we'd like to know where the

water comes from because it comes from

the sides hurt from the bottom or both

why does it stop throwing up at about 15

feet below the top if you look down from

the top event is a slot about 45 feet

long and about a foot wide you can see

down about 10 feet below that we really

don't have any idea what the event looks

like or what affected shape may have on

the way Old Faithful erupts we wonder if

event filled with water quietly or if it

is boiling Old Faithful also makes a

series of big splashes before you should

each eruption

you have been seen these in the video in

fact an especially large one usually

triggers off the eruption we don't

really understand what that's all about

these and many other questions have led

us to want to see what's down there

just recently it's been possible to get

a very small television camera we've put

one of these cameras in a metal housing

to protect it from the boiling water and

to keep it cool with it we have been

taking video pictures down into the

throat of Old Faithful we thought you

might like to see him

his Old Faithful again throws a big

bunch of water out this time it probably

is going to start the eruption and

indeed that's the case there is old

faithful inn corruption

here you see that old faithful surface

band is a slot lack structure as i

mentioned before it's covered with a

material called center which looks kinda

like snow but it's actually me out of

silica a very hard material coach

everything that gets placed with the

erupted water the housing we built for

the cameras in this view it's a

stainless steel thermos bottle with the

camera on the inside cooled likes it's

attached to the surface by a long cable

you can see the white one foot markers

on the cable here we are testing the

light needed to take video pictures down

the dark vent

here it's a little camera itself out of

the housing about two inches long and

about three quarters of an inch in

diameter lands and whole we now have the

camera down into the mantle faithful

it's about six feet down and it's

swinging on the end of its cable at the

moment and we will soon be on our way

down to as deep as we can get safely at

this moment we're still discussing

exactly whether all of the hard work is

working and we have the camera of

properly hooked up electrically and

write microphones running it all those

sorts of things and we want to make sure

we've done everything right before we

will end because we have no idea what's

going to happen you can see the the near

wall of the of the advantage in the

bottom left corner of the picture the

type right hand is in sunshine and it's

overexposed and here we go down the

event and you can see it's still a slot

down as far as we can see so far it's

really quite a narrow slot just a few

inches wide

you also see occasionally drops of water

falling down you'll see those as we go

along

that's water that's convincing from the

steam in the event on our cool housing

those drops are very convenient actually

because they tell us which way straight

down which we otherwise wouldn't know

and we didn't really plan it like that

but that's the way it worked out which

was very convenient

we're dragging most of the time along

the side of the wall notice at this

point we can see some fractures and

cracks in the sidewalk

although the sidewalls actually look

very smooth and that's because they are

covered with the center material that we

see up on the surface notice now that

there's lots of water coming from down

below it's very tiny little droplets

that are being blown up with the steam

that's coming up from below us and now

you can see we seem to be coming to kind

of a shelf like structure and we worry

about what we're going to land on that

and not get off of it and we pay me into

the surface of it and kind of the bang

up and down a little and Holly over the

edge which is very nice but here's yet

another one in this time you can see a

pool of water down there and because of

the droplet why we know that we're going

to land just to the side of that little

pool water here seems now to be a lot of

water coming down around us from the

sides which is not coming from our

housing now we're landing on this flat

little platform of rock and banging up

in the up and down and the folks

handling the cable at the top now think

that they're okay but actually the

camera is laying there on that shelf and

the cable is just going on down the hole

below it now since we can see it why we

can tell him that that's the case and so

they will start bringing the cable back

up

how to pickup the the camera

and see if we're lucky and can get over

the edge of this ledge somehow we've

known about this ledge from our

measurements before and always wondered

what it might be in fact we thought it

was probably a narrow place in the slot

but in the picture is we were coming

down a moment ago you could see that it

really was just a plant shelf so we have

some good chance that we'll be able to

work our way over the edge of it somehow

so at the moment he see lots of water by

the way moving down around the camera

haha here we come off the ledge and

we're banging around again and now it

looks as though we've gone over the

excellent we've been lucky and got past

this ledge and we're down into a much

bigger open area now you can't really

even see that far sidewalk like yet and

now suddenly we see something very

striking which is was a big mystery to

us is we were watching this in real time

it's clearly just wildly boiling water

which is boiling up explaining all over

the camera we had not really intended

this camera to be in submerged in the

water and so we were quite concerned

about this and we actually stopped at

this point and came back up a little bit

to think about what we were seen and

watch it a little more and we did

realize at that point to what we were

seeing was this while boiling water but

we really didn't think that was a good

thing to put the camera down and so we

decided that we wouldn't go down any

further that we would start back up and

we would go up somewhat slower so that

we can see

in more detail level we were going by

and let the wall to the vamp really look

like and see if we can see water coming

in from the side and other things like

that we were interested in also this

would allow us to measure that the kind

of the dimensions of the event because

we had calibrated the camera in the

laboratory so we can actually make

measurements of sizes of things here you

see is going back up this kind of the

side of that platform that we landed on

a bit ago we're actually going up about

a foot at a time waiting for a few

seconds to leave a chance to see things

pretty well and then going up another

foot now you can see our puddle of water

again and CEO where we actually landed

from the drops of water from our camera

we see a large amounts of

these drops of water coming and

seemingly all directions not only from

the bottom but also seems that we seem

to see time coming from the sides as we

move up we occasionally come out into an

open area and we swing as we are doing

now and that gives us a view of a little

wider area then we're training along the

side walls with the event

you can see that the

the picture sometimes gets a little

later that's because we had to adjust

the light is we went up and down and is

of course when we got close to the wall

then we had to turn the lights down to

keep from over excluding the video and

then as we got out into the big open

areas we had to turn them on

more more intensely we didn't do that

very perfectly notice by the way in the

bottom right hand corner you can see a

waterfall falling down the side

seems to be coming from coming in

underneath this slot it's not very much

water so we don't think that's a major

source of the water that's filling the

event now we're back up into really

quite a fairly narrow slot and we seem

to have gotten up above so much

splashing and other things that were

occasionally is just then you see fog

that's because the wind is gradually

getting a little higher up at the top

and it's blowing down into the event and

that allows folks to form is it cool the

steam and event and you will see that

occasionally as we go along when a gust

of wind done causes some

some error to get down in the event

event is full only esteem normally and

this team is quite clear

fortunately otherwise we wouldn't be

able to see much because everything is

is it a bloody temperature water so you

don't get a fall go steam as you do out

of a chimney or something like that big

blast of water right in coming from down

below continuing at some level here it's

gets onto the window of the camera and

makes the image a little a little bit

fuzzy there's another blast of air we've

stopped now we're about 11 feet and we

stop now to decide what we're going to

do whatever acclaimed give up at this

point thinking that were lucky and we

didn't bust our camera or decide whether

we want to get brave and go back down

again and see now that we understand

better what's going on a little more

details about that and so we decided in

fact go back down again

we have an awful lot of nice video there

and if somehow we do the camera and this

process will we we tried and we have a

lot of information keep us busy for

quite some time so now that we kind of

know what to expect we'll see and

recognize things better than we did the

first time down

notice how very smooth walls are that's

the center coating everything there's

our waterfall again really quite

striking the right time side of the

picture but really there's not very much

water in that and you can see their

little puddles of water all over the

china and the lights and now we can

already see the the top of the boiling

water

it's coming very much higher up into the

event and it was when we were down just

a few minutes ago who come to our little

shelf again and the first of the little

shelves and we bang around on it again

and we managed to get by it

notice that there's lots of water

boiling around its turning the camera

around there's our shelter we got stuck

last time and we have to worry about it

going to get stuck again and sure enough

we do the cameras now not moving but

then suddenly something happens probably

a big splash of water from the wild

boiling and kind of knocks off of the

shelf and now we've gone down a little

ways and we really are seeing the heat

reliably boiling water and water pouring

around us in all directions and looks

like a tornado now and again as it

twists the camera spins the camera

around on the end of its cable we really

became very concerned when there are

cameras good survival it is it certainly

was made with that in mind never had any

idea that we were going to be involved

in anything so wild as this notice the

big blast of water from the side wall at

that time that was a lot of water but it

was just a sudden burst so we don't

really know whether that's one of the

sources of water for filling it that

somehow doesn't run in a steady way or

whether it's just water that's placed

over the edge and kind of off to the

side and is now running back in

we're coming back up again slowly coming

up with foot in winter tree seconds and

then another foot and every once in a

while we get this completely drowned in

water in home and he can't see anything

at all for coming up again now on the

little shelf and no tell me the water is

running down the side of it now clearly

just from the splashing of the of the

water in the in the wild boiling

things really are getting very much

wilder as we are down there this time

the event is clearly filling up with

water

we're still about 20 or 25 minutes

before the next eruption

so we're not concerned that were going

to suddenly get caught in corruption

which i'm sure the camera would not

survive

so what have we learned we didn't see an

obvious large source of water so we

think it must be coming from below 40

feet somewhere we also saw no side

channel that would explain why the event

doesn't fill up about 15 feet will need

to watch what happens when the water

will actually reaches that dips

understand what's happening there

anything we saw that the event continues

as a slot down to about 35 feet and then

opens up to a bigger shape that helps us

understand somewhat have the eruption

works we found it's goin process is

certainly not a common activity and we

now understand the pre reps and splashes

or just the top of the wily boiling

water as it nears the surface

clearly there's much to be learned using

this down old camera we hope you enjoyed

looking down into little faithful with

us and we'd like to think the folks from

the yellowstone national park for

permission to put our camera and old

people and for assistance in doing so

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YELLOWSTONE IN DEPTH: BEARS - Duration: 9:43.

they were watching yellowstone in depth

this is a love story and as often

happens in a love story

it starts with a chance encounter

in Yellowstone it seems everyone loves

the Bears our love affair begins anew

with each sighting but it's a story that

has played out since the first park

visitors came to Yellowstone and it's a

love that has only grown stronger over

time

I think my favorite encounter with a

bear yeah let's see that would have had

to a bad one time I'm done Raven pass

when we were over by Norris i was

working the visitor center desk and I

happened to look out the window and all

of a sudden people came running around

the corner there soon there's a bear in

the backyard there's a bear in the

backyard

suddenly the three of them all right

next to the right there was only a few

feet from the car the grizzly bear was

laying down for a while but then it

started heading up our way and then you

know my dad and I were priests you know

faces against the window like oh my gosh

she's freaked because of their was right

outside of her door and looked at the

people to any it didn't care

they're right above us and it was just

such a beautiful sight was amazing to

see them it was just so amazing yes

cool

yellowstone national park is home to

about 500 black bears and anywhere from

100 to 200 grizzly bears the bears

admirers however number in the millions

the first visitors and inhabitants in

Yellowstone viewed bears as a potential

threat an aggressive animal to be

respected and a creature of great

intelligence that intelligence enabled

bears to quickly adapt to the presence

of an increasing number of people it

wasn't long before they learn to use us

to their best advantage by the late

eighteen hundreds Bears had figured out

that where there were people there was

food for the next 80 years a hallmark of

every Yellowstone visit was looking for

bears begging along the roadside are

watching them feed on food scraps at the

hotel garbage dumps we loved them they

loved our lunch visitors to yellowstone

national park in the early years would

come to the dumpster watch bears feed on

the garbage at night

it would also see bears lining the

roadsides panhandling for human food

handouts along park roads and many

visitors would stop and think bears and

try to lure bears and interesting

photographic positions with food get

bears inside their cars behind their

cameras in different positions to get

pictures there was also bears coming

into the roadside campgrounds every

night

joining people for dinner getting up at

the picnic tables eating people food

some bears would come up to the back

doors the hotels every night about the

same time when they knew that kitchen

scraps to be thrown out the back door

and so people treated the bears as pets

and even some of the park employees

actually had bear cubs is wet so it was

really pretty crazy

having been raised on Yogi Bear and

winnie the pooh park visitors often

thought of Yellowstone's bears as

cartoon bears or teddy bears and the

Bears themselves often seem to play up

that image for a while even the National

Park Service got into the business of

bear feeding bears visited dumps behind

park hotels and people visited the dumps

to watch the bears they're watching at

the dumps became so popular that the

Park Service eventually built

grandstands and hosted nightly Ranger

programs for up to three thousand

spectators the constant supply of human

food both at the dumps and on the

roadsides made many bears realize that

people were two threat they lost their

fear of humans a process called

habituation they also became condition

to human foods it was a dangerous

combination

about 50 people every summer we're

getting scratched bitten or mauled it

was simply out of hand by nineteen

seventy park managers decided it was

time for a little tough love the

National Park Service in a sweeping and

controversial move closed all of the

dumps inside Yellowstone National Park

within a few years Rangers crackdown on

roadside feeding of bears after almost a

century of eating human food and passing

on there better ways to their cubs Bears

had to again turn to wild foods some

began raiding campgrounds for human food

the worst offenders both black bears and

Grizzlies were killed it became a public

relations nightmare for the national

park service but the agency stuck by its

mandate to protect and restore natural

conditions in the park

fortunately Yellowstone's bears proved

remarkably adaptable and eventually

return to a natural

diet there still are some instances of

habituated bears in Yellowstone bear 264

for instance a female grizzly who often

was seen between mammoth and Norris she

became so tolerant of people that she

was possibly the most photographed bear

in America

she was struck and killed by a car in

2003 other younger bears sometimes enter

campgrounds most likely out of simple

curiosity in recent years we've had a

few bears that have learned to crush

tense and some of them I think have

gotten a food reward because they'll

crush a tent and then dig through it is

if you're looking for something we had

one other bear that appeared to do it

just for fun or play he walked up belly

flop on a tent and then just walk away

we never did catch that bear approve

which bear was and it's no longer

happening we think he outgrew it today

Yellowstone's bears may be seen less

often than their roadside counterparts

of old but they still exist in healthy

numbers when they do venture to a

roadside it's because that road passes

through their natural habitat

not because they're expecting a handout

and human injuries due to bears are down

from 50 each summer to about one per

year for some Yellowstone will always be

a disappointment without the roadside

beggar bears the romance has lost some

of its pizzazz

for others the love affair with

Yellowstone's bears has taken on a new

depth and significance by appreciating

them from a distance we can better see

them for the wild bears that they are in

Yellowstone our love affair with the

Bears goes on but that love as often

happens has evolved over time as we

learn more

so how will we write this new chapter of

our love story what would we say now

they're Yellowstone's bears you are the

Bears of our imaginations my dreams and

honest you're the inspiration for the

teddy bears we grew up with in the

cartoon bears that make us laugh but you

are not those bears you're a wild you're

unpredictable you exist on your own

terms and for that we respect you anyway

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YELLOWSTONE IN DEPTH: FISH - Duration: 5:29.

they were watching Yellowstone in-depth

Yellowstone's waters are alive with a

variety of native and non-native fish

and fishing can be a great way to enjoy

the park fishing regulations and catch

limits vary depending on the fish

species so anglers should know how to

quickly tell Yellowstone's different

fish apart

here's how you can figure out what might

be on the end of your line Yellowstone

is home to five kinds of trout the

cutthroat trout is the only native trout

in the region and is the only fish with

a red / beneath its jaw hence the name

cutthroat like all other native fish

cutthroat router catch-and-release only

if it has a red / it's a cutthroat trout

and should be returned to the water

right away

rainbow trout may look similar but they

don't have a red / rainbow trout also

have numerous spots on the head whereas

cutthroat trout have very few rainbows

also often have white on the edge of the

fins while cutthroat trout never do

there are some rainbow cutthroat hybrids

in the park when in doubt you should

treat the fish like a native species and

return it to the water

brown trout are another non native trout

in Yellowstone they can be identified by

the pale helos that encircle black spots

on the body of the fish brook trout

another non native trout can most easily

be identified by the worm-like markings

on their body they are an overall darker

color than other trout and have light

spots including some red spots they also

have a light and dark edge on their fins

the largest crowd in Yellowstone is the

non-native lake trout lake trout have a

more deeply forked tailed and other

trout and are darker in color with white

spots like the rainbow trout they have

numerous spots on their head and often

have a white edge on their fins lake

trout Craver aegis Leon native cutthroat

trout for this reason the National Park

Service is trying to reduce lake trout

numbers in yellowstone lake if you catch

a lake trout there you must kill it and

may not return it to the lake alive

trout aren't the only fish in

Yellowstone's waters too rare and

beautiful fish the fluval arctic

grayling and the mountain whitefish also

call this place home

grayling are most easily identified by

their large sail-like dorsal fin

they also have dark spots on the front

half of the body

mountain whitefish can be identified by

their lack of spots they're very round

body shape and their small mouths with

no teeth mountain whitefish like the

fluval arctic grayling and cutthroat

trout are native fish and our

catch-and-release only to learn more

about where in the park your most likely

to encounter certain fish species pick

up a copy of Yellowstone's fishing

regulations at any of the parks visitor

centers or downloaded from the park's

website this guide also contains

information about the required park

fishing permit and catch limits for fish

in addition it has instructions on how

to handle fish that you release back

into the water so they have a better

chance of survival

the National Park Service sets fishing

regulations in order to protect

Yellowstone's fish and to ensure that

future generations will be able to enjoy

fishing in the park

you can help by learning fishing

regulations and by carefully handling

Paul fish that you release back into the

water together we can make sure

Yellowstone's waters continue to thrive

today and into the future

ok

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YELLOWSTONE IN DEPTH: THE RESTLESS GIANT - Duration: 6:19.

they were watching

yellowstone in depth

think of Yellowstone and most people

think of geysers and while over 3

million people come to yellowstone

national park each year to see the parks

geysers hot springs steam vents and mud

pots many don't know that the heat

fueling these wonders is coming from a

volcano possibly the largest on earth a

volcano that lies directly beneath their

feet the Yellowstone supervolcano hot

enough to fuel 10,000 hot water features

that have been spewing hissing and

searching for hundreds and thousands of

years a volcano whose restless shifting

triggers thousands of small earthquakes

in the park each year a volcano that has

had eruptions thousands of times more

powerful than Mount st. Helens

a volcano that could in an instant

change our world forever

the Yellowstone volcano is one of our

planets restless Giants for scientists

the question is not one of whether it

will erupt again but when in 2003

Rangers at the norris geyser basin

noticed a rapid rise in ground

temperatures in the same area previously

dormant geysers suddenly sprang to life

and others boiled dry i was walking the

trails in the morning of july eleventh

talking with visitors when I was in the

area of the Corporal geyser and we

noticed that the area had been heating

up because the trees were meeting at

maple syrup snow which meant the heat

was cooking the SAP in the trees

themselves

it looked like they might be something

in the trail itself so i took some

temperature readings in just a few

centimeters below the surface the

temperature of the earth was 200 degrees

Fahrenheit at that altitude 200 degrees

is the boiling point of water the park

decided to temporarily close the trail

to keep people from getting burned the

Rangers reported what they saw to Hank

Hessler Yellowstone's park geologist

with the help of the Yellowstone Volcano

Observatory he set up a grid of ground

monitoring equipment to study the

changes there are three indicators we

look at for an imminent volcanic

eruption in Yellowstone the first is

increased earthquakes in one particular

area

the second is increased ground

information the ground rising on the

order of feet perhaps yards in one

particular area and then also changes in

thermal activity geyser basins becoming

hotter and producing more gas at

Yellowstone all of those things are

happening all of the time we know though

that this sort of thing at Yellowstone

has been going on for thousands of years

but it doesn't always mean or infected

it almost never means that we get an

eruption here so we get all of this

geological activity that in some places

might mean an eruption was coming

and at Yellowstone it just means that's

the way the place works but Yellowstone

still delivers some surprises several

years ago us geological survey

researchers mapping the floor of

Yellowstone Lake made a series of

stunning finds large underwater hot

springs submerged earthquake faults

underwater spires and a submerged don't

100 feet tall and almost half a mile

long these discoveries along with the

increased activity at norris generated a

great deal of interest in the media and

raised concerns among some park visitors

as to the safety of visiting Yellowstone

Park but with such a large volcano

underlying Yellowstone scientists have

learned to expect the unusual

at norris the flurry of activity

continued for several weeks then as

suddenly as it began the disturbance

disappeared for now

Yellowstone's volcano slumbers in

relative peace Yellowstone is truly a

magical place and that magic is rooted

in the Yellowstone volcano we have a

very good volcano monitoring system in

Yellowstone and we'll know if the

volcano and when the volcano starts to

become excited so until that time

Yellowstone is a great place to come and

visit and experience the beauty of the

volcano directly one day

Yellowstone's restless giant will

reawaken it will change Yellowstone as

we know it but in the meantime and for

the duration of our lives and

generations to come

this giant will be a creative force not

a destructive one

the Yellowstone volcano breathes life

into the geysers the hot springs the mud

pots it fuels the geologic wonders that

have amazed countless generations and

will thrill countless more and it is

alive right now right beneath our feet

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WHY WE MONITOR EXPLAINED - Duration: 5:29.

the value of long-term monitoring is so

that we can know what's happening to the

plants and animals and their habitats in

the time that we can do something about

it

there are hundreds of national parks

across the united states and these parts

are not the same

so with the inventory and monitoring

networks have done is divided the

country into similar type ecosystems

ecoregions and each network is charged

with monitoring the part within a

particular set of ecosystem the

monitoring that we do it has to be

something that can be objectively

quantified and then repeat it several

years later and then repeated the same

way even walk out and say well it kinda

looks different to me but that doesn't

count you have had something that you

can measure the inventory and monitoring

networks have been identified vital

signs that are used to take the pulse of

the parks why is water quality

monitoring important to us here at

CinemaCon preserve the estuary is

exposed to a number of different

influences we're in an urban area we

have commercial port operations going

through the park there's commercial

fishing as well as recreational fishing

boating kayaking waterskiing jet-skiing

I think the unique thing about the

preserve is that there's so much of it

is still undeveloped that there's

pristine open view sheds so water

quality is critically important to

protect the thought marsh ecosystem the

Park Service values this kind of

information

it shows that the Park Service

understands the true meaning of

preservation each year we can't let my

penstemon a rare blue flowering plant

that not many people know about

we're down in our hands and knees really

crawling around looking for those

seedlings which are very hard to find

and the the large showy flowering adult

plants there is one very unique wash

that actually specializes in pollinating

these flowers is known as a pollen wasp

unlike common wasps which typically hunt

other insects these wasps behave more

like be the visitation of the flowers by

this wasp is essential really for the

long-term persistence of the plants

because it is such a well adapted

pollinator one never knows what all the

connections are what it would cost if

those species were lost if its habitat

type where lost things might not still

be here if it weren't for the protection

of the National Park Service the

findings of the inventory monitoring

program are reported directly to park

management as a manager of the park

you can't manage your resources without

having scientific data so the scientific

data associated with the monitoring

program gives us the ability to

understand the natural environment this

river system not just the river itself

and the aquatic creatures the fish and

the freshwater mussels that live in it

but everything adjacent to it

even the forest that come down to the

edge of the river all of it is connected

if no one is watching if they show up

and they find wait a minute

the rivers are rivers a wreck everything

that was alive in it is gone now

what happened then it's too late is too

late to do anything but if someone is

out here monitoring and watching then

the Park Service has a chance to take

action

flowing through these cave systems are

rivers and streams in which we can find

a unique creature the Kentucky cave

shrimp which is a federally listed

endangered species but it's not easy to

find it all the cave rivers are big and

dark and the cave shrimp are small and

transparent the idea behind long-term

monitoring is that resource managers in

any one part can make better management

decisions with good scientific data

the beauty is project is that it's

designed to detect change over a very

long period of time it might not be

something that's detectable in one year

two years three years even 10 years to

zoom out and to see this thing in a

bigger picture it is something I'm proud

to be part of the vision of the park

service includes this kind of

understanding and the value for the

science