Arches National Park

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK

         Arches National Park  is in southeast Utah. The special land forms are arches .  Arches come in many sizes and shapes .Some arches are thin and long and graceful like rainbows. Some  kinds  of arches are landscape arches, delicate arches, and double arches.  Some of the flowers in Arches National Park are purple larkspur, yellow sunflower, red-orange Indian paintbrush, blue lupine, and scarlet Gilia.  Some other plants are blue-green sage, yellow-flowering rabbit brush, cacti bristles, pricklypear, whipple cholla, claret cup, and fishhook.  There are also lots of animals.  Some animals are  coyotes, mule deer, jackrabbits, lizards, snakes, foxes, and cottontails.  This is a list of some of the birds in the Arches National Park:  ravens, jays, swifts, falcons, eagles, swallows, hawks, and wrens.
         Some other interesting facts are that erosion is really affecting the arches and it is making the arches fall apart.  To preserve the arches, President Herbert Hoover made Arches a  national monument in 1929.  In 1971 Congress made Arches a national park at its current size of 114 square miles.  
         Park rangers  have a big responsibility of taking care of nature.  Park rangers show how nature lives. Park rangers find people when they get lost. Park rangers risk their lives fighting fires that people make.  Park rangers find people who are lost. A park ranger greets visitors.  Also, park rangers show how people lived in the past.