Yellowstone National Park is a national park in the northwestern United States, spanning parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho over the Yellowstone Plateau. Established by the 42nd US Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, it was the first area in the world formally set aside by a national government as a national park, becoming the model the US National Park Service and, later, protected-area systems worldwide would follow. The park sits atop the Yellowstone Caldera, a large active volcanic system that supplies roughly half of the world's geothermal features, including the Old Faithful geyser, and it protects large populations of grizzly bears, wolves, bison and elk within one of the largest substantially intact temperate ecosystems on Earth. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyUS National Park Service 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Governing Body
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Why is Yellowstone called a supervolcano?
It is called a supervolcano because its caldera was formed by exceptionally large explosive eruptions.
Yellowstone sits on the Yellowstone hotspot, the largest volcanic system in North America. It is called a supervolcano because its caldera was formed by exceptionally large explosive eruptions. The caldera is considered dormant, and since May 2001 the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, a partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey, the park and the University of Utah, has monitored the region's geological processes over the long term.
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On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Langford was appointed as Yellowstone's first superintendent in 1872, but Congress denied him salary, funding, or staff; Yellowstone Park was opposed by local mining and logging interests.
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Yellowstone National Park is a national park in the northwestern United States, spanning parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho over the Yellowstone Plateau.
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In 1978, Yellowstone was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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