ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH

Zion National Park is becoming one of the most affected national parks with climate change. In addition, human activity could destroy fragile environments.

 

Climate Change

 

Zion is making one of the nation's 25 most endangered parks. It's vulnerable to a loss of ice and snow, a loss of water, more flooding, a loss of plant species, a loss of wildlife, a loss of cultural resources, intolerable heat, loss of fishing, and more air pollution. Zion was formed due to the power of the Virgin River's flow. If the river's flows are dimished, it won't be as powerful and won't shape the canyon's geology. The main thing to do is to reduce the gases that are threatening them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

 

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Retrieved May 23, 2014, from http://www.nrdc.org/air/

 

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Retrieved May 24, 2014, from http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705333813/Climate-change-endangers-Zion.html?pg=all

 

Cultural Resources. (n.d.). Cultural Resources.

Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://www.serdp.org/Program-Areas/Resource-Conservation-and-Climate-Change/Cultural-Resources

 

Escape of the invasives: Top six invasive plant species in the United States - Smithsonian Science. (n.d.). Smithsonian Science.

Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://smithsonianscience.org/2013/04/top-six-invasive-plant-species-in-the-united-states/

 

Ice. (n.d.). commons.wikimedia.com.

Retrieved May 14, 1925, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_road_in_the_Northwest_Territories_-a.jpg

 

Properties of Snow. (n.d.). Properties of Snow.

Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2013.web.dir/Sean_Counihan/Accumulation.html

 

Water. (n.d.). Image #12.

Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://eofdreams.com/photo/water/12/

 

Wildlife Materials. (n.d.). Wildlife Materials.

Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://wildlifematerials.com/