in like a month we found out about pitcher rocks and so we were able to put together this I mean we had planned for Yellowstone for like a year and we put together this whole expedition to FrozenLake Superior you know like Upper Michigan you're just going what um and it it became one of it became the the
So we talk about Yellowstone being the most dangerous volcano today. If Yellowstone erupted, it would be devastating for agriculture and civilization, but it would cover a few states in a few inches of ash. This would have covered the whole lower 48 in 600 feet of lava.
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And then on a Tuesday morning, think about an environment-- let's say, 2011. to strip mine Yellowstone Park, our freedoms are over.
Enough lava erupted at this time that it would have covered the lower 48 states 600 feet deep in lava. So we talk about Yellowstone being the most dangerous volcano today. If Yellowstone erupted, it would be devastating for agriculture and civilization, but it would cover a few states in a few inches of ash.
was interesting we so when I came to National Parks Adventure we were all set on going to Yellowstone in Winter and we covered it in summer we got the geysers we got you know the these beautiful beautiful scenes um uh and but we wanted to capture in
And I think about the bears that live in the lower 48. And without Yellowstone and Glacier National Park, there would be no grizzly bears left in the lower 48. So in addition to being sanctuaries of culture and sanctuaries of story, our national parks are also refugia-- the last places
So what we've learned is that for systems in a critical state, there are no special events causing the massive fires. There was nothing special about the Yellowstone fire. - In 1935, the US Forest Service established the so-called 10:00 AM policy.
Just, so cool! Sometimes volcanoes can form in places called hotspots, where a big plume of super-hot mantle rock rises up underneath the crust, causing rock to melt and erupt at the surface. We have hotspots to thank for Yellowstone , whose hotspot now sits right below the northwest corner of the United States. Now, you might’ve heard Yellowstone described as a “supervolcano,” which could cause colossal destruction if it erupted again.
It is in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, which is our largest national park. It is the size of six Yellowstone . I wanted to convey the immensity of the place and of the mountain.
imagined that you would use the camera to take pictures of yourself. They thought you'd be at Yellowstone and taking the vistas and things like that. So culture has this mitigating factor where what you want technology to do is completely different.
Volcanoes could come back at any point, really big mega volcanoes. People always ask me about Yellowstone .
So you get lower turnover. But yet you can still influence Yellowstone Park, you just can't raze it to the ground and plant it from scratch.
This was nothing out of the ordinary. Each year, Yellowstone experiences thousands of lightning strikes. Most don't cause fires and those that do tend to burn a few trees, maybe even a few acres before they fizzle out.
And just because a volcano has had one, or even two, supereruptions in the past, doesn't mean its future blasts will be as hefty. Even if a supereruption were going to happen at Yellowstone , we'd have some notice. Volcanologists— who are not a species from “Star Trek” but rather scientists who study volcanoes— keep tabs on the amount of magma held within the volcano's underground reservoir,
worked with a couple of ecologists, sort of examining where we were at this time in the world's history. And I learned by going to places like Yellowstone that even some of our most protected places were having certain issues. And like you, I saw headlines like in newspapers about what was going on with wildlife across the globe, and even stories like this about the plan
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, And that might influence vegetation like aspen inside of Yellowstone .
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, So whereas there was only one beaver colony in all of Yellowstone prior to wolf reintroduction, there is now up to 12.
Volcanoes could come back at any point, really big mega volcanoes. By the way, Yellowstone is not one of those.
Those two, I think, great heroes of mine, would have been spinning in their graves I think if they knew that the national parks that they had essentially discovered, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, were shut down, that the public couldn't see them because of some trivial ideological dispute in Washington, DC. I think they would have thought that was madness.
There's um, there's something happening interesting on the Internet, I think. There's this idea of um, Dunbar's number. Maybe some of you guys have heard of this. Um, I first came Um, this is in Yellowstone .
We have hotspots to thank for Yellowstone , whose hotspot now sits right below the northwest corner of the United States. Now, you might’ve heard Yellowstone described as a “supervolcano,” which could cause colossal destruction if it erupted again. But “supervolcano” isn’t a scientific term; most geologists kinda roll their eyes at it.
which Parks should we feature in a 40-minute film it it was really really tough um but we wanted to get like some of the iconic ones like uh Yellowstone yosimite um the Grand Canyon and then also some hidden gyms and we go to a place which I'll talk more about in a little while uh pitchered rocks National
Well, all right, I'm just going through. I think they were French-- flew it into the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone , the entire National Park system banned them from the parks.
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, Well, we know that wolves were exterminated from Yellowstone in the mid 1920s, so the possibility was that maybe the disappearance of those wolves
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, was having an effect on the age structure of trees and plants in Yellowstone .
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, And that vegetation has a big ripple effect on other species in Yellowstone .
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, Gray wolf-- once re-introduced-- a lot more wolves now in the whole greater Yellowstone system.
this time around. A million acres bigger than Yellowstone .
This is one of the reasons that bringing the wolves back to Yellowstone was so great because the wolves ate the, scared enough of the elk that the elk got out of the areas,
That’s enough volcano-stuff to fill 400 million Olympic swimming pools. The 100-meter butterfly would be… just so different But could this really happen at Yellowstone ? Whole towns and cities covered in ash?
Emergency services stymied? Global agricultural collapse? In theory, yes. But the last supereruption at Yellowstone was around 640,000 years ago. And geologists say there’s an “exceedingly low” chance that a supereruption would happen in the next few thousand years.
It’s not linked up enough to erupt in one big boom. So, you have geologists’ blessing— you can take a Yellowstone supereruption off your Things to Worry About list. But just because supereruptions aren’t much of a threat to us, doesn’t mean regular old volcanic eruptions aren’t.
And Homegrown National Park could be bigger than the Adirondacks, plus Yellowstone , plus Yosemite, plus Grand Tetons, Canyonlands, Mount Rainier, North Cascades,
So here's one exception, when I approached the subject. And at Bumpass Hell, a geothermal area which looks like a mini Yellowstone .
in Hawaii, hydrothermal systems, Yellowstone .
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, West. But some botanist realized that there was something strange about the aspen populations in Yellowstone and other parts of the American
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, So the message I'd like you to take from that is that in general-- and Yellowstone shows this-- that Nature is resilient.
In another part of my travels for the book, I went to Yellowstone Park to look at wolves.
We're the first country in the world to create a National Park-- 1872, Yellowstone -- and now it's been emulated throughout the world.
And there are four great surveys in the 1860s. And two of the were a man called Hayden, who essentially mapped Yellowstone , and John Wesley Powell, who despite only having one arm, the earlier one being shot off in the battle of Shiloh-- Amazing story.
You pack up the car, and you go drive to someplace like a Yosemite or Yellowstone or something else like that?
I worry a little bit. I could envision a family driving through Yellowstone and the kids are a watching a travel log video about Yellowstone versus looking out the window.
- One such system is forest fires. In June, 1988, a lightning strike started a small fire near Yellowstone National Park. This was nothing out of the ordinary.
become so much more important than just, you know, trying to protect the environment. It's like, no, we're trying to protect things like Yellowstone and Yosemite and the sequoias that
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, I'll give you another example, maybe a little more familiar, which is Yellowstone National Park.
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, Well, that was sort of put to the test-- deliberately or not-- when wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995.
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, Cottonwood is rebounding. So there's been a major effect, not just on elk numbers, which are down in Yellowstone by more than 50%
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, So just restoring one species-- a keystone, this apex predator, the wolf-- has had a dramatic effect on Yellowstone .
It was winter. She went on a two-week trip on the highest, bleakest parts of Yellowstone National Park, where there were no tracks of prey.