BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK

30,300 acres (12,272 hectares), W central Colorado, in the Rocky Mts. The park embraces the most spectacular stretch of the 53-mi (85-km) long Black Canyon, which is named for the sheer, dark-colored walls carved by the unspoiled Gunnison River. The narrow canyon is so deep (as much as 2,660 ft/811 m) that its bottom is in the shadows for most of the day. At the bottom, ancient Proterozoic rocks are exposed; wildlife in the park includes black bears, cougars, bobcats, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and swifts. The area was designated a national monument in 1933 and became a national park in 1999.

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books on: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park  - 166 results

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Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903
Book by Chris J. Magoc; University of New Mexico Press, 1999
Subjects: Yellowstone National Park--History
...Falls, Yellowstone National Park, 1882. Haynes Collection...landscape. Colorization of Yellowstones features transformed what in black and white had appeared...travel books employed the montage technique...Geysers, springs, and canyons were cut, pasted...
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
Book by Marlene Deahl Merrill; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Geological And Geographical Survey Of The Territories (U.S.), Hayden, F. V--(Ferdinand Vandeveer)--1829-1887, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel, West (U.S.)--Discovery And Exploration--Sources, Yellowstone National Park--Description And Travel, Yellowstone National Park--Discovery And Exploration--Sources
...beds of Echo Canyon, May 30-31. At...a small camp of Indians with...just outside of the village. Along...called here the Black Hills -- standing...border the North Park including Longs...feet high; to the West were the...wrongly, the Black Hills to whose...It reminded me of my readings of...
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A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement
Book by Mark W. T. Harvey; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Dinosaur National Monument (Colo. And Utah)--History, Echo Park Dam (Colo.)--History, Nature Conservation--United States--History--20th Century
...used. While the National Park Service suffered from the Great Depression...the Department of the Interior blossomed...like the Green, Gunnison, San Juan, and...approved the Boulder Canyon Project Act in...Boulder Dam in Black Canyon, southeast...
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Book by Mark David Spence; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Relocation--History, National Parks And Reserves--United States--History, Nature Conservation--Social Aspects--United States, Wilderness Areas--Government Policy--United States
...places. Beth Gunnison and Deirdre Shaw at Glacier National Park, Tom Tankersley...their knowledge of park history and...benefited greatly from the expertise of...spiritual leader Black Elk expressed...Valley, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone...
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John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country
Book by Robert C. Euler; U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1969
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico), Powell, John Wesley--1834-1902
...Nankoweap Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park": Am. Antiquity...archaeological survey of the upper Grand Canyon...Archaeological survey of the Great Thumb area, Grand Canyon National Park": Plateau , v. 17...
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journal articles on: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park  - 4 results

 
 
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The Use of State Instream Flow Laws for Federal Lands: Respecting State Control While Meeting Federal Purposes
Journal article by Adell Louise Amos; Environmental Law, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Streamflow--Laws, regulations and rules, Water resource management--Public participation, Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Water--Management, Water--Public participation
...degree." (77) For Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the minimum amount...water rights for Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park where the district...instream flows for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. (150) In 1933...
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In Wilderness Is Dissension: The Contentious Battle over Utah's Wilderness Is Marked by a Cultural Clash
Journal article by Martin A. Nie; Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Vol. 14, 1999
Subjects: Environmental policy--Planning, Public lands--Utah, Utah--Natural resources, Wildlife conservation--Political aspects
...Management Guidance, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument" <http://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/alerts...lnterimGuidance.html> (1997). (7.) Such places as the Badlands, Bandalier, Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Chiricahua, Craters of the Moon, Lava Beds...
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Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
Journal article by Kevin S. Blake; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 18, 1999
Subjects: Emblems--Social aspects, Geography--Social aspects, Insignia--Social aspects, Landscape--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Mountains--Psychological aspects, Symbolism--Environmental aspects
...Mountain is the focus of the towns recreation with a park and small ski run at the base and a road leading to the top used in the...Montrose business and welcome signs, but the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, a closer landmark and a significant tourist...
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The Vanishing Inscription
Journal article by George C. Baldwin; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Archaeology and history--Research, Discoveries (in geography)--Spanish, Discovery and exploration, Historical archaeology--Research, Inscriptions--Research
...utilized by the National Park...Service. Much of this value...Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Region...the Library of Congress...loc. cit.; The Dominguez...Centennial, National Park Service, 1976...


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Fitness Vacations to Help You De-Stress: Great Ways and Places to Relax and Rejuvenate
Magazine article by Lillian Africano, Nina Africano; Black Enterprise, Vol. 24, July 1994
Subjects: Resorts--Recreational aspects
...will host the BLACK ENTERPRISE/Pepsi...play a few rounds of golf or sets of...experience, try the Peaks at Telluride...Miguel, Dolores or Gunnison rivers. Take a...Wall and Crack Canyon ($300 per day...from Grand Teton National Park, specializes in...
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A Rocky Mountain High: A Summer Visit to Butte, Colorado
Magazine article by Stephen Gorman; World and I, Vol. 19, June 2004
Subjects: Crested Butte, Colorado--Description and travel, Crested Butte, Colorado--History
...is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. A stunning gorge, the Black Canyon cuts a deep, dark gash in...miles while reaching a depth of 2,772 feet. Lower, free-flowing...canyon were protected as a national park in 1999, while the upper...
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Lewis & Clark's America: The Corps of Discovery Left Us a Blueprint for a Wild West
Magazine article by Todd Wilkinson, Paul Rauber; Sierra, Vol. 87, May-June 2002
Subjects: Bison--History, Lewis and Clark Expedition--History, Wildlife habitat improvement--Management
...national bird to national endangered species...and other birds of prey, bald eagles...widespread spraying of the pesticide DDT...near the Grand Canyon, with the goal...Montana, Yellowstone Park, and central Idaho...survival of the black-footed ferret...to 160,000. The Gunnison sage grouse, with...
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Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California
Magazine article by Peter A. Coates; California History, Vol. 83, Spring 2005
Subjects: California--Economic aspects, California--Portrayals, California--Social aspects, Distribution (Economics)--Analysis, Distribution (Economics)--History, Distribution of wealth--Analysis, Distribution of wealth--History, Sociopolitical literature--Analysis, Wealth--Analysis, Wealth--History
...and the Making of the National Parks (New York: Oxford...Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West (Berkeley...Commit tee of the Menlo Park Anti-Chinese Association...Journals of Charles A. Gunnison, Special Collections M0179...


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newspaper articles on: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park  - 5 results

 
 
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Newest National Park Greeted by Residents, Politicians Alike
Newspaper article by Valerie Richardson; The Washington Times, October 24, 1999
Subjects: Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
...But the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park managed to...acres, the Black Canyon is the nations third-smallest national park, after Hot...dedication of the Gunnison Gorge National...Campbell. Black Canyon was declared a national monument in 1933, but the local communities of Montrose, Gunnison and Delta...lobbied for park status. Mr...
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Weekender: Travel: STATE OF BLISS; JANE KERR IS ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH ON A COLORADO RANCH
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 11, 2004
...in stitches. We could have listened all day, but we had more stunning views to see. The Black Canyon in the Gunnison National Park, 250 miles southwest of Denver, takes your breath away. And, like Jays alligators, its best seen from a distance...
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There's Still Time to Hop on a Cruise in Alaska
Newspaper article by John Hilferty; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 4, 2006
Subjects: Cruise lines
...of Colorado, include the Curecanti National Recreation Area, famed for its dinosaur fossils; the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, which is a national park; historic towns of Gunnison, Crested Butte and Mount Crested Butte, plus several smaller but quaint...
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All aboard for Family Roadshow Back to Nature
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 15, 1996
...Parks and forests in Colorado, Arizona and Utah. We began in Colorados Rocky Mountain National Park, went south by the stunning Black Canyon of the Gunnison to Mesa Verde, with its spectacular honey-coloured cliff palaces built by the Anasazi Indians...
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And If Your Chelsea Tractor Could Book the Holiday. ...It Would Have to Be a Rain-Lashed, Stomach Wrenching Slide Down Bolivia's Well-Named Caminode la Muerte*; LUXURY TRAVEL 2007
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 7, 2007
Subjects: Farm tractors, Tractors
...A HUMMER UP THE ROCKIES Explore the highest peaks in eastern America in the monster of all cars, the Hummer. Head for the Black Canyon in Gunnison National Park where you will find yourself staring into a nervewracking slash in the landscape up...


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encyclopedia articles on: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park  - 4 results

 
 
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK 30,300...unspoiled Gunnison River. The narrow canyon is so deep...shadows for most of the day. At...wildlife in the park includes black bears, cougars...designated a national monument in...
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Gunnison
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...through magnificent canyons, notably the Black Canyon of the Gunnison , a national park. Gunnison Tunnel, c.5 mi (8 km) long, was built between 1905 and 1909 to divert the rivers water to the Uncompahgre Valley for irrigation...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...and designated a national park in 1980. Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP W Colo. 1933...former Platt National Park and Arbuckle National Recreation Area...Crystal reservoirs in the upper Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Cuyahoga Valley...
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Colorado , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...One of the most scenic states in the country, Colorado has recreational parks including Rocky Mountain National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park with its narrow gorge cut by the Gunnison River, Dinosaur National Monument in NW Colorado...


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