CALIFORNIA

° Hale Tharp was the first white man who arrived in the giant forest° his guides were indian friends° he lived in a concaved sequoia

° the naturalist John Muir visited him and called the forest „ Giant Forest“

° in the park exist a lot of diffrent plants and animals° the park is famous for the sequoias

° a sequoia can be 80 m high and the diameter can be 11m° sequoias are able to be 3200 years old

° the park is visited by 1,5 million people every year°

Sequoia National Park

DEATH VALLEY

° death valley natinal park is situated in the mojave-desert

° it‘s the driest national park in the USA° interesting places are: badwater, salt

creek and ubehebe crater etc.° badwater: the lowest place in the USA

° salt creek:a place which is constant flooded and the water evaporates and

leaves salt° ubehebe crater : a volcanic crater which is

230 m deep and 6000-7000 years old

Lake Tahoe• ° a lake of the borderline between nevada and

california• ° it‘s 497 squarekilometres big• ° found on the map in the east portion of sierra

nevada• ° it‘s 501 meters deep• ° the lake is dewater by the truckee river• ° as a natural lake it was transformed by a

project called Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID) in a dam

• ° legends tell that there lives a seamonster

Yosemite N.P.

• ° National Park near San Fransisco• ° since 1984 Yosemite is one of the Unesco-

World natural heritages• ° you can see there granitic rocks, waterfalls ,

streams, sequoias and glaicers• ° first indians lived in Yosemite N.P. until more

and more white men came because of the gold rush

• ° step by step the N.P. was explored• ° the most popular place in the Yosemite N.P.

is called Yosemite Valley in which there is „ Le Capitan“ a big granitic rock

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