Across
- 1. The change the wolves brought to Yellowstone were so drastic that the _____________ were even altered.
- 2. _____________ Soldiers were the first "park rangers" of the National Park Service.
- 4. In 2019, Great __________ Mountains National Park was visited 12.5 million times - the most of any national park that year.
- 6. Yellowstone National Park spreads across ________ (spell the number) different states
- 7. In 1864 Abraham Lincoln signed the ______________ ____________ Grant Act which protected the land for it's natural beauty and was the first time public land was protected for something other than timbering or hunting.
- 8. While Yosemite sparked the idea for national parks it wasn't the official first national park. It was the __________ official national park
- 9. By 1884 only about _________ hundred and twenty-five wild bison were left in the United States
Down
- 1. T ________________ was considered the "conservationist president" as he doubled the number of parks under the NPS.
- 3. In 1995 there were 31 ______________ from Canada which were reintroduced to the Yellowstone ecosystem in an attempt to rebuild the population and balance out the ecosystem
- 4. President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service in 19____ (spell the number) to consolidate the 35 parks and monuments into one federal agency
- 5. ______________ National Park is the oldest national park