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The Grand Canyon
The
Grand Canyon National Park is in the northwest part of Arizona. The land
forms are caves, trees, and streams. The animals are birds, bobcats, bats,
squirrels, deer, elk, lizards, porcupines, wolves, and bears.
In 1973 a daring man named Evil Knevil jumped right into the Grand
Canyon and didn’t get hurt, he did get some bruises though. Grand Canyon
visitors can stay in big lodges above the canyon and they have Grand Canyon
ranger programs.
The oldest
rocks at the Grand Canyon are two billion years old. That’s nearly half
as old as the earth. The canyon was formed by water cutting between the
ground. The Grand Canyon has some of the biggest caves in the world. A
canyon is a huge hole in the ground. You can save the Grand Canyon by not
polluting the rivers and not harming the plants and animals.
So do you want to be a park
ranger in the Grand Canyon? Well, park rangers have lots of work. They
show nature and they greet visitors. Park rangers even show how the Native
Americans lived. They help out and they also do search
and rescue. The park ranger's biggest job is to protect the wilderness.
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