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Montana: National Parks and Forest

 The region I choose for the blog project are a few of the parks of Montana.


Glacier National Park

  • I have found that the climate of this national park It has subzero cold winters and the highest temperature it has ever gotten was 75F.

  • The biodiversity of this park is very unique because it is located in the crossroads of several different biological communities. There are plant and animal from other ecosystems like from parts of northern Canada, the great prairies, and areas of the Rocky Mountains.
  • For Soils I have found that the alluvial soils are composed of 3% of Glacier's soil, wet soil less that 1%, glacial and landslide soils is 39%, and bedrock soils at 55% in total. The bedrock is usually thin and supports sparse vegetation. In the alpine tundra the harsh frost has formed the soils into parallel turf-banked terraces on gentle slopes, and ice wedge polygons that are common in ice tundra's.
Soils - Glacier National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

Flathead National Forest

  • The climate at Flathead is very interesting because the minimum climate is in the beginning of spring and the highest is at the beginning of autumn.


  • This park contains grasslands that connect to Glacier National Park, wetlands & riparian are the largest assembly of wetlands in the Rocky Mountains region.
  • The soil in the mountain region is formed mainly in loess that had been shaped by volcanic ash and even underline by glacial till. In many of the areas the till is dense and brittle when moist. The vegetation is mainly moist, mixed forest with a few dry mixed forest included in lower elevations. It is roughly 55% Andeptic Cryoboralfs, 15% Dystric Cryochrepts, 15% Andric Cryochrepts, and 15% soils of minor extent.

Yellowstone National Park

The climate of the Yellowstone has very harsh winters, with a low of 1.2 F and a high of 24.4 F, and cool summers, with a low of 41.6 F and a high of 71.6 F.

  • This park is one of the largest nearly intact temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth. It's diversity and natural wealth includes its famous hydrothermal pools, wildlife, geysers, vegetation, lakes, and even geological features such as the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
  • The Yellowstone series is consisted of shallow excessively drained soils that formed in loamy colluvium and residuum weathered from basalts and other types of volcanic rocks.

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